“When I was a kid…” doesn’t really work when talking with your kids about marijuana today. It’s a whole new ballgame. Marijuana — legal or otherwise — is a hot topic. It’s more important than ever for parents to protect their kids’ health and development by addressing this issue early and often.

Although it has been around for over a decade, vaping’s popularity exploded in 2017, taking many families, schools and healthcare providers by surprise. Vaping, or Juuling as it is often referred to by teens and young adults (named after a popular vape device called JUUL), is the inhaling and exhaling of an aerosol produced by using a vape device.

TOP (Tackling Opioids through Prevention) for Athletes is intended to help raise awareness of prescription opioid pain medication use among student athletes, and to provide evidence-based information to strengthen policies and practices within schools athletic departments and community based athletic departments and community based athletic programs.