Media Outreach

This week, The Fix, a website about addiction, recovery and the drug war, published Former Obama Administration drug policy advisor Kevin A. Sabet’s commentary discussing a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association that claims occasional marijuana use doesn’t harm the lungs.

Getting high doesn't necessarily mean a trip to a drug dealer in a back alley. Many drug abusers are growing or making drugs in their homes. From pot houses to "shake 'n bake" meth makers, the dangers of homegrown and homemade drugs are in neighborhoods everywhere. It doesn't matter where you live or what kind of house you have. Someone growing marijuana or making methamphetamine might be right across the street. During today's 1 p.m. EST hour-long broadcast, hosted by CADCA partner MCTFT, called "Homegrown and Homemade Drug Threats," we'll see what law enforcement is doing to try to stop these drugs and what dangers they face.

 

Is there an issue that you think we should be tackling in our CADCA TV web and TV series? If so, then CADCA wants to know about it! An annual survey, developed by CADCA's broadcast partner the Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training program (MCTFT), will be used to help CADCA plan its next lineup of shows.

Social media is coming to CADCA's 20th Anniversary National Leadership Forum in a big way with a number of communications-related courses being offered in real-time via the Internet for the first time.

 

The ONDCP National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign is seeking donations of fully-produced advertising executions from organizations that have developed a methamphetamine prevention campaign on either a national or local level.

Some of the hardest sectors to get involved in your coalition are the faith community, businesses and media. How would you like to network with coalitions in your state that have successfully included these sectors on their coalitions? The CADCA´s National Coalition Registry provides coalitions with exactly this type of information.

A public relations and marketing firm known as Neotrope announced that it will be donating $25,000 in free PR and newswire services to worthy non-profit and charitable organizations in celebration of its 25th anniversary.