Practical strategies that could be implemented by the community to ensure that the anti-substance abuse campaigns are effective
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Youth use of harmful legal products, including inhaling or ingesting everyday household products, prescription drugs, and over-the-counter drugs, constitutes a growing health problem for American society. As such, a single targeted approach to preventing such a drug problem in a community is unlikely to be sufficient to reduce use and abuse at the youth population level. Therefore, the primary focus of this article is on an innovative, comprehensive, community-based prevention intervention. The intervention described here is based upon prior research that has a potential of preventing youth use of alcohol and other legal products. It builds upon three evidence-based prevention interventions from the substance abuse field: community mobilization, environmental strategies, and school-based prevention education intervention. The results of a feasibility project are presented and the description of a planned efficacy trial is discussed.
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- Youth organizations offer opportunities for leadership that young people might not get otherwise.
- Young people involved in organizations can receive information on staying safe and healthy from their peers or adults they know and respect.
- Many young people volunteer in some way these days. This is especially effective when drug prevention programs combine statistics with real-life accounts from people who have struggled with addiction.
- After participating in a drug prevention program, students are less likely to try using a drug that can have long-term consequences.
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- Participation allows young people to share their experiences and ideas on the dangers of drugs. Their perceptions concerning what makes how drugs can be avoided differs from what adults believe to be the reasons or rationale.