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Drug Free Cecil Youth Coalition Inspires Community Action During National Awareness Month

The Drug Free Cecil Youth Coalition (DFCYC), located in Cecil County, Maryland, is honored to be named the recipient of CADCA’s 2025 Dose of Prevention Award. This award recognizes the coalition’s efforts throughout October, in educating youth, promoting healthy choices and strengthening substance use prevention throughout Cecil County. 

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Drug Free Cecil Youth Coalition Inspires Community Action During National Awareness Month
The Drug Free Cecil Youth Coalition (DFCYC), located in Cecil County, Maryland, is honored to be named the recipient of CADCA’s 2025 Dose of Prevention Award. This award recognizes the coalition’s efforts throughout October, in educating youth, promoting healthy choices and strengthening substance use prevention throughout Cecil County. Throughout the month, DFCYC brought together student leaders, […]
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From Teens
Spotlighting CADCA Youth Spotlights
If you follow Stop Medicine Abuse on social media, you may have recently met Vinayak Menon and Andrea Marquez. They are two of CADCA’s recent youth spotlights, which highlights teenagers active in community substance misuse prevention efforts. We loved showing them off and we’d like to introduce you to a few more. Meet Jabeen Sheikh […]
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Pledge for Life Partnership Fights Back Against Medicine Abuse During National Awareness Month
The Pledge for Life Partnership is proud to announce that we were selected as a finalist for CADCA’s Dose of Prevention Award 2024. This year, we were honored to secure the second-place position. In 2017, we achieved first place in this prestigious competition, highlighting our ongoing commitment to raising awareness about medicine misuse and empowering our […]
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How the Frenchtown Community Coalition Showed Up for the Dose of Prevention Challenge
The Frenchtown Community Coalition (FCC), located in Frenchtown, Montana, is humbled to be the winner of CADCA’s 2023 Dose of Prevention Challenge. During October, the FCC strived to provide Frenchtown School District (FTSD) and the Frenchtown community with multiple opportunities to learn about prescription drug and over-the-counter (OTC) cough medicine misuse and abuse. This was […]
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Preventing Medicine Misuse: Inspiration From Past Dose of Prevention Winners
This post was updated slightly in September of 2025. Many people know of October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but did you know that October is also National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month (NMAAM)? We raise awareness about over-the-counter (OTC) medicine misuse and abuse every month, but during October, we kick things into high gear by […]
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We are Stronger Together: Partnership, Collaboration, and Passion for Prevention
In 2022, the Safe Communities Coalition of Hunterdon County, managed by Prevention Resources, won CADCA’s Dose of Prevention Challenge, which took place during National Medicine Misuse Awareness Month in October. We were excited to participate in this informative and engaging challenge. We called on our Coalition members and partners to collaborate on how we could […]
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