406 - Better Together: Helping Young People at Risk for Addiction
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Addiction prevention often comes in the form of "Just Say No" campaigns. But Dr. Terri Powell knows that to be successful, prevention strategies must be thoughtful and holistic—and focus on connections and support systems that help young people make the best decisions for themselves. Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks with Dr. Powell about Better Together, a prevention program that's based in a public library. Joining them is Diana Fortee-Mason, one of the young leaders of the program.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jh.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.6 | Today, our topic is an innovative program to reduce substance use among adolescents. |
| 0:52.1 | I speak to Dr. Terry Powell of the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:55.6 | Bloomberg School of Public Health about better together. |
| 0:59.4 | This is an outreach effort based in public libraries. |
| 1:03.4 | Joining me and Dr. Powell is Diana Forty Mason, |
| 1:07.1 | one of the young people leading the program. Terry Powell, thanks so much for joining me to talk about |
| 1:14.3 | the prevention of substance use. Thank you so much, Josh, for having me today. Now, I know you have |
| 1:20.7 | done work in this area for a long time, and you have a much more thoughtful and complex understanding of what it means to prevent |
| 1:29.2 | substance use than what a lot of people think of, which is like a poster of someone saying |
| 1:33.4 | don't do drugs. |
| 1:34.4 | Is that fair to say? |
| 1:35.6 | Yes, that is fair to say. |
| 1:37.4 | And I would also say that I'm also very much focused on young people who are affected |
| 1:41.9 | by parental drug use. |
| 1:43.9 | We know right now there's an opioid crisis like ravaging our country. focused on young people who are affected by parental drug use. |
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