CADCA’s Congressional Election Guide for 2026

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CADCA’s Congressional Election Guide for 2026

All politics is local, and right now, candidates for Congress need to hear from you about substance use prevention, treatment, recovery, and rescue/overdose response.

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Results from 2025 National Survey on Drug Use and Mental Health Show Need to Address Nicotine  

In July, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released data from the 2025 National Survey on Drug Use and Mental Health (NSDUH). This annual, nationally representative survey measures substance use and mental health indicators, and it provides critical insights into both current use rates of tobacco and nicotine products and trends over the past few years.

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The Odds Against Us: Recognizing Gambling Addiction in the Digital Age

At CADCA’s Mid-Year Training Institute, Addiction Counselor Brian Dolan, MHC, CRC, shared that the gambling landscape has changed so dramatically in the last five years that if he struggled with problem gambling today, he likely wouldn’t have survived it.

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Protecting Your Family from Hidden Online Drug Threats

At the inaugural DEA Fentanyl Free America Summit in July, coinciding with CADCA’s Mid-Year Training Institute, leading experts discussed how traffickers are exploiting the internet to reach vulnerable patients and young people. Here’s what coalition leaders need to know about the latest threats.

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What it Takes to Implement Prevention Strategies That Stick

Coalitions can have a good strategy on paper, but what determines whether it actually changes outcomes is implementation, the day-to-day work of putting that strategy into practice. That was the focus of the Competencies in Focus: Implementation webinar, the 13th session in CADCA’s 18-part Coalition Competencies webinar series, presented in partnership with the Center for Public Health Systems Science (CPHSS) at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Collecting Local Evaluation Data 

At the 2026 Mid-Year Training Institute, one session tackled a question that every coalition eventually runs into: how do you actually know if your prevention work is making a difference?

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A Look Back at CADCA’s 25th Annual Mid-Year Training Institute 

Nearly 2,500 attendees, including 365 youth, gathered at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, Florida, from July 12-16 for CADCA's 25th Annual Mid-Year Training Institute, a milestone anniversary for one of the prevention field's longest-running training conferences.

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Beverly Watts Davis Honored with 2026 CADCA Lifetime Achievement Award 

For more than 40 years, Beverly Watts Davis has worked at nearly every level of the substance misuse prevention field, as an elected official, a federal agency Executive, a nonprofit Executive, and as a mentor to coalition leaders across the country. This year, CADCA is honoring her decades of service with its Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th Annual Mid-Year Training Institute in Orlando, FL.

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Why Coalitions Are Heading to Orlando This July 

Every July, coalition leaders, prevention specialists, and youth advocates from across the country pack their bags for CADCA’s Mid-Year Training Institute. And every year, they leave with more than a conference tote bag. They leave with tools they can put to use immediately.

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Coalitions in Action: Frontier Community Coalition 

In the rural stretches of northern Nevada, where the nearest specialty clinic can be hours away and transportation is a constant barrier, Frontier Community Coalition (FCC) has spent more than four decades supporting its communities through prevention, recovery, and youth leadership initiatives.