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This SAMHSA guide provides information on student assistance resources available for school leaders and administrators and tips on how they can use these resources in their schools.

This SAMHSA fact sheet provides parents, caregivers, and teachers with strategies for helping children manage their stress during an infectious disease outbreak. It describes potential reactions among youth and the support adults can provide to help them.

This SAMHSA Advisory reviews the evidence on prescription stimulant misuse among youth and young adults. It establishes prescription stimulant misuse as a public health problem, identifies associated risk and protective factors, and provides programs and action steps for stakeholders to prevent misuse.

This SAMHSA fact sheet for teens provides facts about opioids. It describes short- and long-term effects of opioid use, lists signs of opioid use, and helps to dispel common myths about opioids.

SAMHSA announces the release of a new report, Helping Children and Youth Who Have Traumatic Experiences, which shows that nearly half of the nation’s children have experienced at least one traumatic event in their lifetime. This framework enhances care coordination across multiple systems that work with children's services.

Mass violence events expose survivors and witnesses to trauma, whether they experience the event in person, within the community, or through the media.

This issue of the Supplemental Research Bulletin discusses the effects of mass violence events and the sequence of behavioral health reactions after the event in adult and youth survivors. Several key findings are presented: