In 2024, the DEA seized enough counterfeit pills to represent 380 million lethal doses. In 2025 alone, seizures equated to 196 million lethal doses—an unprecedented surge
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In 2020, the United States Postal Service, along with the Drug Enforcement Administration, issued the Drug Free USA Forever Stamp—a small symbol with a powerful message.
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Staying Ahead While Staying Connected...Raising teens has never been easy—but parenting in 2025 comes with a unique set of challenges that didn’t exist a generation ago. Social media trends shift by the hour, vaping continues to evolve under the radar, and artificial intelligence now plays a growing role in how kids learn, communicate, and even think.
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As Memorial Day approaches, we pause to honor the brave men and women who have served our country—and the families who stand beside them. Military families play a critical role in our nation’s strength. Their everyday lives are marked by discipline, sacrifice, and resilience. These values not only support their loved ones in uniform but also create strong, prevention-focused homes that we can all learn from.
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Summer is around the corner — and while it’s a time for fun and freedom, it can also bring new challenges for parents. With more free time and less structure, kids are at a higher risk of engaging in risky behaviors. That’s why Informed Families created a proactive Summer Prevention Plan to help families stay connected, engaged, and substance-free all season long. From fun activities to clear safety tips, we’ve got everything you need to make this summer safe and memorable.
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It’s hard enough to teach our kids to avoid drugs when even popular celebrities and members of Congress, not to mention the cannabis industry, are trying to normalize its use.
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When it comes to addiction, a lot of young people think it can’t happen to them. But it can, and it does. Especially with a drug like Xanax.
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In the olden days, perhaps in your grandparents’ time, family meals were a given. The kids may have had play practice or a sporting event, but in general, the entire family gathered for dinner six to seven nights a week.
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Every generation develops its own slang, its own secret language, and shorthand ways of communicating that keep parents in the dark about what they’re up to. As a parent, it’s frustrating, but it’s also a perfectly normal part of growing up.
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Sometimes it seems as though we’re trying to hold back a tidal wave in trying to curb illegal drug use. Between 1999 and 2019, 840,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) noted in a report released late last month. Another 20 to 30 times that many non-fatal overdoses are believed to occur over the same period.
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