Partnership to End Addiction

Partnership to End Addiction We provide families, professionals, and communities with everything they need to know to help prevent and address substance use among young people.

Call 855-378-4373 to schedule a call with our free helpline. Partnership to End Addiction is a national nonprofit uniquely positioned to reach, engage and help families impacted by addiction. With decades of experience in research, direct service, communications, and partnership-building, we provide families with personalized support and resources — while mobilizing policymakers, researchers, and health care professionals to better address addiction systemically on a national scale. Text JOIN to 55753 to receive personalized messages of support and guidance. For more information, visit drugfree.org.

11/26/2025

This is what Partnership looks like: Standing with families through every challenge.

Partnership to End Addiction provides expert guidance, practical tools, and real answers about substance use – in English and Spanish.

We're here for you. Visit drugfree.org/partnership.

11/24/2025

👪 Whether you're parenting a teen or a pre-teen, this video will give you practical strategies to navigate conversations about substance use in a way that builds trust, encourages honest conversations, and helps them make safer decisions.

🧠 Our prevention team recently visited The Dalles, Oregon to share game-changing insights about the teenage brain with p...
11/20/2025

🧠 Our prevention team recently visited The Dalles, Oregon to share game-changing insights about the teenage brain with parents and community members.

Through our partnership with YOUTHTHINK we're helping communities understand why the teen years can feel like "all gas, no brakes" - and more importantly, how to channel that energy into healthy risk-taking through sports, arts, and community engagement.

This is prevention in action. 💙

Read more: https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/free_news/the-teen-brain-explained-youththink-presents-the-more-you-know-thursdays/article_45bdc1b3-2764-4b57-a2d0-9d6d79c170bc.html

11/18/2025

This week on with Elizabeth Vargas, Lara Love Hardin discusses her journey from suburban soccer mom hiding a he**in addiction to bestselling author.

As a result of stealing money and credit cards to fund her addiction, The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing author shares how jail helped her rediscover writing and inspired her to build a nonprofit supporting justice-impacted women.

Her story is a powerful exploration of shame, resilience, and redemption. Listen to their conversation here: https://tinyurl.com/4x3u8zyb

The funding bill includes an important provision that will help protect kids from intoxicating h**p products that became...
11/14/2025

The funding bill includes an important provision that will help protect kids from intoxicating h**p products that became widespread after Congress legalized h**p in 2018. These products have largely been unregulated, allowing them to be designed and sold in ways that appeal and are accessible to kids.

We called for this change along with our partners at Shatterproof to protect youth from the negative health outcomes associated with using these products.

Your voices made the difference! Thanks to everyone who contacted Congress and championed this issue.

Learn more about this issue: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yxw2Vt55pgM

11/13/2025

Coping isn’t a sign of weakness. It’s the brain’s way of trying to protect you. But sometimes, the habits that once helped you survive start working against you.
Risky coping gives short-term comfort but long-term chaos. It’s like turning down the fire alarm instead of putting out the fire.
Healthy coping asks more of you — awareness, effort, patience. But it helps your brain reset its stress response over time.
Every small, healthy choice is a quiet act of rewiring.
You’re teaching your brain that calm is safe, and healing is possible.
If you’ve relied on coping that numbs, it doesn’t mean you’ve failed. It means your brain has been doing its best with the tools it had.
The Partnership to End Addiction has free, practical resources to help you understand your patterns and replace them with strategies that restore balance.

Visit the Partnership’s resource center on mental health and substance use disorders at drugfree.org/mentalhealth.
Healing starts when you stop judging your coping and start understanding it.

Billions of dollars from opioid settlements are being distributed nationwide, and how these funds are spent will determi...
11/12/2025

Billions of dollars from opioid settlements are being distributed nationwide, and how these funds are spent will determine their impact for years to come.

Join Shatterproof and Partnership to End Addiction for a webinar to learn where funds have been going, and how to effectively invest in prevention strategies that save lives.

🗓️ November 18, 2025
🕑 2–3 PM EST
💡 Co-hosted by Kristen Pendergrass (Shatterproof) and Lindsey Vuolo, J.D., M.P.H. (Partnership to End Addiction)
Moderated by Aneri Pattani, KFF Health News

Gain practical insights on:
✅ Where the dollars are going
✅ Investing in evidence-based prevention
✅ Ensuring settlement investments make lasting impact

🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/PreventionInvestments

We had the best time with Mobilize Recovery last week at Rutgers University. We joined friends – old and new – to raise ...
11/12/2025

We had the best time with Mobilize Recovery last week at Rutgers University. We joined friends – old and new – to raise awareness, provide resources, and empower students and the Rutgers community when it comes to the challenges of substance use and mental health.



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11/06/2025

Thank you to our incredible TCS New York City Marathon runners who gave their all to support families impacted by addiction. We love you! ❤️

Thanks to our friends at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Overdose Prevention Initiative team for l...
11/05/2025

Thanks to our friends at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Overdose Prevention Initiative team for lifting up our recently published report – “Guidance for Using the Opioid Settlement Funds to Invest in Primary Prevention.”

Our VP of Health Law and Policy, Lindsey Vuolo, wrote about the guide in a post for their Opioid Principles blog. In her post, she created a shortlist of best practices for communities that are interested in investing their opioid settlement funds in effective prevention strategies.

“Supporting prevention over the long term will help reduce the physical, social and economic costs to individuals, families, communities and society of the opioid crisis and help to prevent a future crisis,” Lindsey wrote.

Read the full article here: https://opioidprinciples.jhsph.edu/helping-communities-use-the-opioid-settlement-funds-for-effective-prevention/



11/04/2025

Jim Sonefeld, drummer for Hootie and the Blowfish, shares his powerful journey from concert tours fueled by alcohol to finding recovery at age 40.

He opens up about hiding his drinking behind the rock-and-roll lifestyle, the intervention that came from his 4-year-old daughter, and how he's rebuilt his life through recovery.

Jim also discusses his unique approach to talking with his kids about substance use and why he now sees his recovery story as a gift rather than a punishment.

Listen to his conversation on Heart of the Matter with Elizabeth Vargas: https://tinyurl.com/4x3u8zyb

We’re so close to the finish line. 🏁 This Sunday, our TCS New York City Marathon team is running for families impacted b...
10/31/2025

We’re so close to the finish line. 🏁

This Sunday, our TCS New York City Marathon team is running for families impacted by addiction — carrying their stories, struggles, and hope every mile.

Hundreds of families in America lose loved ones to substance use every day. This is why we run.

We’re $40,000 away from our $150,000 goal — and we need your help to reach it.

💙 Every dollar fuels recovery, hope, and healing for families who need it most.

👉 Give now and help us cross the finish line together: drugfree.org/2025marathon


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Partnership to End Addiction is a result of the cohesive joining of two pioneering and preeminent addiction-focused organizations — Center on Addiction and Partnership for Drug-Free Kids.

We combine our depth of expertise with our compassion-driven, hands-on approach to deliver solutions to individuals and families and proactively take action to incite productive change.

Together, as Partnership to End Addiction, we mobilize families, policymakers, researchers and health care professionals to more effectively address addiction systemically on a national scale.

Learn more at drugfree.org.