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Prevention Strategies

CSAP’s Northeast CAPT has identified seven key prevention strategies shown by research to be effective.
Click below to learn more about each of these prevention strategies:
• Policy
• Enforcement
• Collaboration
• Communications
• Education
• Early Intervention
• Alternatives

The following resources also provide useful information on evidence-based strategies:

Prevention: What's Science Got to Do with It? (Webpage, Acrobat 24 pages)
This digest provides information on all seven of the prevention strategies.

Multiple Strategies Video
Using multiple strategies in multiple ways, working toward a few common goals, offers the best chance to prevent young people from using alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Produced by CSAP’s Northeast CAPT, this video highlights the work of the Gloucester Prevention Network and how this agency used multiple strategies to reduce substance use in its community.

This video is accessible using windows media player 9 series for Windows 98 2nd ed., Me, and 2000. Click here to download this video. Click here for a video transcript.

Improving the Larger Environment (Webpage, Acrobat 16 pages)
This document offers more information on environmental change as an effective approach to prevention.

 

 
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