Prime Choices

No classrooms. No schedules.

Just you and the tools to make low-risk choices.

What is Prime Choices ?

Prime Choices will help you examine your current relationship with alcohol and drugs, and help identify the tools to shape that relationship to align with your personal goals and values. It's based on the validated research that informs our flagship Prime For Life program, but does not require an in-person class. Prime Choices is a voluntary course that can be completed whenever you like and wherever you have an internet connection. Prime Choices illustrates how problems develop, how to lower risk of developing them, and how to change trajectory if you feel off-course.

NOTE: Prime Choices does NOT fulfill any court or otherwise mandated requirements.

What Is Prime Choices ?

Anywhere.

All you need is a device and an internet connection. Experience Prime Choices at home or on the road!

Self-paced.

Voluntary.

Prime Choices is a choice itself! This course does not fulfill court or other mandated requirements.

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Who Is It For?

Prime Choices is for anyone looking to protect the things they value in life. Whether you’re actively thinking about making different alcohol or drug choices, curious about what low-risk choices look like for yourself or others, or wondering how to talk about substance use with friends, family, or your kids – this is the course for you!

Prime Choices is powered by myPrime - a program developed in cooperation with the US Army to provide soldiers with a tool to assess their own high-risk behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes about drugs and alcohol. Now, it's available to everyone.

Prime Choices is not a replacement for formal treatment or therapy. However, the experience will provide useful information, help apply the principles of risk reduction to your own life, and be a springboard toward change.

If you are required to take a Prime program (by a court, school, or other mandating organization), this is not the course for you. Please verify the program name and connect with us or an instructor to take Prime For Life or different version of myPrime.

How Does It Work?

What's in the course?

How is it taught?

Three learning units:

Exploring Unit: Examines perception of risk and provides information about substances
Reflecting Unit: Guide the process of applying information about choices and risk to your own individual circumstances 
Protecting Unit: Helps develop a plan to either change or maintain low-risk choices and protect the values you care most about

An interactive and media-rich course
Research and insights based on more than 1,800 studies conducted over the last 75 years around the globe
Presentation of information in a non-judgmental way that provokes new thinking, perhaps new decisions, and the tools to stick with them
Specific guidance regarding personal choices, support for change, and a plan for success

Outcomes

Prime Choices is a delivery platform of myPrime, a trademarked program modeled upon the evidence-based Prime For Life program and, using research terms, is considered promising practice. Research continues into this effectiveness as we strive to provide the most up-to-date information in the most life-changing of ways. The Prime program experience is one that has been shared with more than five million people over the past four decades. Review Prime For Life outcomes here.

I didn't realize that for so much of my adult life I'd been putting the things I care about, the people I care about, at risk. I'm excited to start living in a different more intentional way. Not just around how I drink, but in all areas of my life! Thank you!

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Ready to start exploring alcohol and drug choices for yourself? Access Prime Choices today!