Anuvia's Prevention Services cultivate wellness, delay the onset of substance use, prevent substance abuse, and reduce substance abuse-related behaviors and consequences.  Substance abuse and addiction result from multiple factors including heredity, individual characteristics, family situations, peer influences, neighborhood dynamics, and community norms.  Therefore the prevention of these issues must encompass a broad array of considerations and strategies to achieve effectiveness.

Anuvia’s prevention department utilizes multiple strategies to deliver interventions that reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors to assist community members, especially young people, in avoiding alcohol, tobacco and other drug use. Anuvia focuses on both individual- and population-based approaches to substance abuse prevention using various strategies, including information dissemination, prevention education, alternative activities, problem identification and referral, community-based processes and environmental approaches.

Anuvia prevention staff are trained to deliver a multitude of evidence-based, model prevention programs recognized by the National Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and by the State of North Carolina as effective. As well, Anuvia has developed multiple unique prevention programs that are built on evidence-based principles and customized to suit the needs of the local community. Additionally, Anuvia collaborates with community members and other organizations to help create and sustain community systems and environments that support individuals and families in maintaining healthy lifestyles.

Alcohol and pot took me to the darkest depths of my life. I nearly died on my last binge. What once had been my idea of “fun” turned on me and grabbed me by the throat. I knew that the part of me that craved alcohol wanted me dead, and I was terrified.