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Prevention Materials
Using multiple strategies in multiple settings, working toward a
few common goals, offers the best chance to prevent young people from
using alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
—What’s Science Got to Do With It? CSAP’s
Northeast CAPT
What works in substance abuse prevention? Over a 25-year history of substance
abuse prevention, some efforts have paid off and others have not. Researchers
have now made great strides in identifying effective programs, strategies,
and principles that focus on preventing and reducing substance abuse and
related risky behaviors. The materials included in this section have been
developed by the Northeast CAPT to help practitioners identify, implement,
and evaluate prevention programs for their communities.
Prevention Strategies
For the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), Gardner and Brounstein
identified some key principles of effective substance abuse prevention.
From these, CSAP's Northeast CAPT identified seven key prevention strategies
shown by research to be effective. This section contains a collection
of monographs, videos, fact sheets, and resource lists that describe each
of these prevention strategies.
Critical Components
As prevention practitioners implementing programs in schools, communities,
clinics, agencies, or other settings, it is critical to identify and use
evidence-based strategies that are likely to be most effective in meeting
the needs of the people with whom you work. This section contains a series
of prevention critical component documents that highlight effective prevention
practices by domain.
Bibliographies
Additional Resources
This section contain several resources developed by experts from across
the field of substance abuse prevention.
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