SCAN Futuros Brillantes YPU Program

11/12/2025

About 4,000 young people (under 21) die from excessive alcohol use each year. Underage drinking cost the United States $24 billion in 2010 (the most recent year of data available).

The effects of underage drinking and ways to prevent related harms.

11/03/2025

Quitting smoking isn’t easy. It takes time. And a plan. You don’t have to stop smoking in one day. Start with day one. Let the Great American Smokeout event on the third Thursday in November be your day to start your journey toward a smoke-free life!

The American Cancer Society is encouraging people who smoke to make a plan to quit, or to plan in advance and quit smoking with The Great American Smokeout.

10/27/2025

Prevention and Behavioral Health Promotion (PBHP) programs include promotion strategies that increase protective factors, are trauma informed, and align with best practices as outlined by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Spectrum of Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral interventions. Texas' comprehensive prevention and behavioral health promotion approach includes both substance use and su***de prevention programs and services. There is a strong connection between the missions of substance use prevention and the su***de prevention community; prevention and treating substance use, prevents su***des. This alignment of services is designed to enhance our Prevention System to implement evidence-based programs, recognize signs of su***de risk, and work collectively toward prevention by promoting healthy individuals and healthy communities across Texas.

Information about Texas' comprehensive prevention and behavioral health promotion program.

10/21/2025

October is Substance Use & Misuse Prevention Month

10/13/2025

Fentanyl is the deadliest drug threat the State of Texas—and the United States—has ever faced. Fifty times more potent than he**in and 100 times stronger than morphine, just two milligrams of fentanyl, a dose barely visible to the human eye, is lethal. Nearly half of all drug-poisoning deaths last year were related to fentanyl, making it the single deadliest drug in American history.

Join the fight against the fentanyl crisis by learning what fentanyl is and get connected to resources to help you and your community.

10/06/2025

October is Substance Use & Misuse Prevention Month. Prevention month lifts up the national conversation to showcase preventions’ positive effects on communities across the country.

https://www.samhsa.gov/about/digital-toolkits/substance-use-prevention-month?

October is Substance Use Prevention Month.

09/29/2025

October 1 to October 31 is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This month is dedicated to raising awareness about domestic violence and providing resources for those affected.
Click below to learn about understanding relationship abuse, support someone else experiencing abuse, and abuse in underserved populations.

Domestic Violence Awareness Month is held each October to unite advocates across the nation in their efforts to end domestic violence.

09/23/2025

Cigarette smoking during childhood and adolescence causes significant health problems among young people, including an increase in the number and severity of respiratory illnesses, decreased physical fitness and potential effects on lung growth and function.

Cigarette smoking during childhood and adolescence causes significant health problems among young people, including an increase in the number and severity of respiratory illnesses, decreased physical

09/17/2025

Learn About Su***de Prevention

09/12/2025

National Addiction Professionals Day is September 20th

With overdose rates reaching the highest numbers on record in the past couple of years, we need to remember to pause on each year on September 20th to celebrate vital players of the health system and continuum of care: addiction professionals.

09/03/2025

Resources and information for strengthening su***de prevention and mental health crisis services.

The resources and information on this page are designed to help states, territories, tribes, mental health and substance use disorder professionals, and others looking for information on understanding the background, history, funding opportunities, and implementation resources for strengthening suic...

08/25/2025

August 31 is recognized as International Overdose Awareness Day the world’s largest annual campaign to end overdose, remember those we have lost to an overdose, acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind, and renew our commitment to end overdose and related harms.

https://www.dea.gov./ioad