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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 community with the tools to prevent it.

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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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From the Community
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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From Teens
My Experience Misusing OTC Medicines
This blog post was written by a teen who abused OTC medicines, following in the footsteps of his mom, Cecilia. Read Cecilia’s story. I first started misusing medicine when I was 15. I told my mom I hadn’t slept through the night in weeks. I knew she could relate because I could hear her awake […]
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From Parents
My Advice to Parents So They Don’t Make the Same Mistakes I Did
This blog post was written by a mother who abused dextromethorphan and whose son, Enrique, followed in her footsteps. Read Enrique’s story. My life changed forever the day I began abusing substances – and so did my son’s. I was a young, single mother. I worked three jobs to make ends meet for my son […]
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