Building bridges to improve drug misuse prevention: PROSPER

“‘What could we do to make PROSPER even better?’ That was the question that led to this project,” explained Janet Welsh, research professor in the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, and principal investigator on the project. “We knew that there was a whole other group of stakeholders working on the supply side of the substance misuse epidemic. Our lane has always been in demand reduction, but there is a whole other lane in supply reduction. We invited the drug take-back stakeholders to join the PROSPER team. We want to use PROSPER’s power to connect with different aspects of the population in order to enhance the drug take-back initiatives in our communities.” For the full article click here.