In recent years, medicine abuse (including prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications) has increased nationally and in northwest Hennepin County. If you want to know more about prescription drug or over-the-counter medicine abuse, how to prevent it, or simply get resources, check out these sites:
- Medicine Disposal in Hennepin County
- Rx Abuse Prevention Toolkit, by CADCA (Community Anti Drug Coalitions of America)
- Stop Medicine Abuse: Stopping Cough Medicine Abuse Before It Starts
- The Medicine Abuse Project, by The Partnership at DrugFree.org
- Opioid Overdose Card
Medicine: It Cures, It Kills
A medicine abuse prevention tool, created by the Partnership for Change, September 2013.
Guidelines for Video Use:
- Please help us track the use of this prevention tool. Please email PFC staff after showing or sharing the video with a targeted audience. Please inform us of the following:
- Venue shown/shared in (e.g. School PTO meeting)
- Size of audience (e.g. 40 parents)
- Medicine: It Cures, It Kills was created for parent and adult community member audiences. It was not created as a curriculum tool for classroom use with students.
- The video can be accessed here (or below). For a DVD copy of the video contact PFC staff.