Meet the 2027 National Leadership Forum Awardees
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Meet the 2027 National Leadership Forum Awardees
Some leaders are just getting started. Others have spent decades shaping the field. All of them are leading prevention efforts and building healthier communities. Meet the 2027 National Leadership Forum honorees.
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Meet the 2026 Drug-Free Kids Campaign Awards Dinner Honorees
On October 8, CADCA's Drug-Free Kids Campaign Awards Dinner brought our community together to honor leaders and organizations who are making a real difference in the lives of young people. Here is a look at this year's honorees.
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Nicotine Pouches: Growing Nicotine Concentrations, Growing Concern for Youth
What are nicotine pouches? Nicotine pouches are sachets of nicotine powder, which may be either derived from tobacco or synthetically derived, intended to be placed between the upper lip and gum. They differ from snus and other smokeless tobacco products in that they do not contain any tobacco leaf.
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Why Teens Should Be THC Free
If you attended Johnny’s Ambassadors Founder & CEO Laura Stack’s training session at CADCA’s 25th Annual Mid-Year Training Institute this year, you likely left with the same unsettling question that seemed to hang in the air: how did we get here? Here, meaning a place where the average potency of THC products has skyrocketed from roughly 2% in the 1980s to 20% for standard dispensary marijuana today, with concentrates averaging 60% THC or higher.
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A Kansas City Model for Youth Responders
At CADCA's 25th Annual Mid-Year Training Institute, we learned about a program that demonstrated what youth development and emergency preparedness can look like when they're woven together.
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Why Your Coalition’s Planning Process Matters
At the end of August, CADCA convened community coalition leaders for the 14th installment of its 18-part webinar series on CADCA’s Coalition Competencies, a research-backed framework that outlines the essential knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for effective coalition work.
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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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