Policy Resources
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Materials
Center
for Science in the Public Interest (1996). State alcohol taxes
and health: A citizen’s action guide. Washington, DC. Access
the table of contents online at: http://www.cspinet.org/booze/taxguide/tax_toc.htm
Fisher,
D. (1998). Environmental prevention strategies: An introduction
and overview. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. Available online: http://www.northeastcapt.org/csap/papers/fisher.pdf
Gardner, S. E., and Brounstein, P. J. (2001). Series Guide to Science-Based
Practices. Principles of Substance Abuse Prevention. Rockville,
MD: Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention, Division of Knowledge Development and Evaluation. Available
online: http://www.northeastcapt.org/resources/csap/papers/gardner-cover2.html
Holder,
H. & Reynolds, R. (1997). Application of local policy to prevent
alcohol problems: Experiences from a community trial. Addiction,
92(Supp. 2), S285– S292.
Join
Together (1996). Fixing a failing system. National policy recommendations:
How the criminal justice system should work with communities to
reduce substance abuse. Boston, MA. Available in full text online
at: http://www.jointogether.org/sa/files/pdf/fail_system.pdf
National
Institute on Drug Abuse (1998). Assessing drug abuse within and
across communities: Community epidemiology surveillance networks
on drug abuse. Washington, DC: National Institutes of Health,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Available in full
text online at: http://165.112.78.61/DEPR/Assessing/Guideindex.htm
Pacific
Institute for Research and Evaluation (1999). Strategies to reduce
underage alcohol use: Typology and brief overview. Washington,
DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention’s Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Program. Available
in full text online at: http://www.udetc.org/documents/strategies.pdf
Prevention
Enhancement Protocols System (1999). Preventing problems related
to alcohol availability: Environmental approaches. Rockville,
MD: Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention. Available online: http://www.health.org/govpubs/PHD822/
Toomey,
T. and Wagenaar, A. (1999). Policy options for prevention: The case
of alcohol. Journal of Public Health Policy, 20(2), 193–212.
Training
CSAP’s
Northeast CAPT is developing a series of trainings, with videos,
that will build practitioners' capacity to incorporate each of the
seven prevention strategies into their efforts.
Web
Resources
The
Alcohol Epidemiology Program (AEP) is a research program within
the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. The
AEP conducts policy-relevant research on specific initiatives to
prevent alcohol-related problems. Their website http://www.epi.umn.edu/alcohol/ contains a variety of
information on policies to reduce youth access to alcohol and the
development of ordinances that regulate the use of alcohol.
The
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) provides national leadership
in the development of policies, programs, and services to prevent
the onset of illegal drug use, to prevent underage alcohol and tobacco
use, and to reduce the negative consequences of using substances.
CSAP is one of three Centers in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA) in the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS). CSAP promotes comprehensive programs,
community involvement, and partnership among all sectors of society.
Through service capacity expansion and knowledge development, application,
and dissemination, CSAP works to strengthen the Nation's ability
to reduce substance abuse and its associated problems. Available
online at: http://www.samhsa.gov/centers/csap/csap.html
CSAP’s
Decision Support System (DSS) at http://www.preventiondss.org
promotes scientific methods and programs for substance abuse prevention
for use within communities and State prevention systems. You can
use this site to learn how to assess your needs, gain insight into
how to further develop your agency capacity, and choose among effective
prevention programs.
Join Together Online at http://www.jointogether.org is a national resource center
for communities working to reduce substance abuse and gun violence.
Their site includes news, advocacy tools, and funding resources
related to prevention and treatment.
The
Marin Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems
conducts training, provides in-depth technical assistance, develops
publications, and tracks actions of the alcohol beverage industry.
Their work primarily focuses on policy and economic development
as it pertains to alcohol and other drug issues. http://www.marininstitute.org
Mothers
Against Drunk Driving (MADD) at http://www.madd.org is a national organization dedicated
to preventing drunk driving and underage drinking as well as supporting
the victims of drunk driving. Their site includes an in-depth section
on public policy that tracks legislation across the country as well
as the records of key legislators.
The
Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center (UDETC) at http://www.udetc.org provides
training and technical assistance to States and communities involved
in enforcing underage alcohol access and use laws.
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