Alcoholism & Addiction Prevention
- Overview
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- Environmental Factors: Can protect against or increase the risks of substance abuse
- Social Norms Marketing: Can reduce negative behaviors, like binge drinking, across a large population
- Brief Interventions: Are a low cost, quick and easy intervention to reduce a person's substance abuse before it progresses to addiction
- Popular in Prevention
- Topics Inside
- Abstinence Addiction Risk Factors Alcohol Ambivalence Binge drinking Brain Damage from Alcohol Change Opiate Addiction Parenting Parenting Teens Prescription drug abuse Prescription drug diversion Preventing Teen Pain Pill Use Prevention School Connectedness Social Norms Teen Addiction Teen Alcohol Abuse Teen Prescription Drug Abuse Teen Prescription Drug Addiction Teenage Alcoholism Teenage Drug Abuse Teenage Substance Abuse Teenagers Teens brief intervention college college substance abuse drug abuse students
- External Links
- Parents - The Anti Drug Created by the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. Equips parents and other adult caregivers with tools to raise drug-free kids.
- Students Against Destructive Decisions Providing students with prevention tools to deal with drinking, drug use, risky and impaired driving, and other destructive decisions.
- Above the Influence A site encouraging teenagers and young adults to live drug and alcohol free lives.
- D.A.R.E. Drug Abuse Resistance Education: an acclaimed program that gives kids the skills they need to avoid involvement in drugs, gangs, and violence.
- Get Smart About Drugs A DEA resource for parents.
- Too Smart To Start Helping youth, families, educators, and communities prevent underage alcohol use.
- College Drinking Prevention Research addressing college drinking culture.
- Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) CADCA is the nation’s leading drug abuse prevention organization, training more than 5,000 local grassroots groups, known as community anti-drug coalitions, in effective community problem-solving strategies.
- Mothers Against Drunk Driving - MADD Provides grassroots leadership to create major social change in the attitude and behavior of Americans toward drunk driving and underage drinking.
- StopAlcoholAbuse.gov Plenty of research and resources on the prevention of underage drinking.
- The Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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