October is Substance Use & Misuse Prevention Month

🌟 October is Substance Use & Misuse Prevention Month

This October, Safe Harbor Peer Support Services invites you to join us in recognizing Substance Use & Misuse Prevention Month — and to share your prevention story. Together, we can inspire action and highlight how prevention is improving lives across our communities.

Prevention is powerful. It helps us stop substance use before it starts, prevent progression to substance use disorders, and reduce the consequences associated with misuse. Decades of prevention science and community-based experience show that prevention works — and it works best when we all get involved.

Effective prevention focuses on strengthening protective factors — such as strong family bonds, supportive communities, and access to resources — while reducing risk factors that contribute to substance use and mental health challenges. By doing so, we create environments where youth, families, and communities can truly thrive.

Substance Use & Misuse Prevention Month is about more than awareness — it’s about lifting up a national conversation. It’s an opportunity to celebrate the positive effects of prevention and to remind one another that we all have a role to play.

We invite you to be a partner in prevention. Share your story, start conversations, and help spread the word about how prevention is making a difference. Together, we can build stronger, healthier communities.

👉 Learn more and get involved - Join the national conversation celebrating prevention by using the hashtag #MyPreventionStory and share your story in the comments on our social media post about Substance Use & Misuse Prevention Month.

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