Prevention of Substance Abuse Essay

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Substance Abuse Prevention Programs in the United States

The menace of drug abuse among the most active population in the U.S. has been an issue that successive governments have struggled to contain, some to a significant success rate and yet there still remains to be substantial work to be done in the same line to ensure the dream of having a drugs free U.S. is achieved. This has made several organizations, agencies and institutions to focus more on the prevention programs as will be discussed in the section below.

Substance Abuse Prevention Program at University of Missouri- Rolla (SAPP at UMR) is one such program that has had a significant preventive effect on the population that has done through the university since 1988 when it was first initiated and even on the general public through the collaboration they have with other like minded programs like Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students (BACCHUS). The SAPP-UMR is also known for the formation of the Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOAs), offering them counselling and guidance as well as establishment of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) all with the aim of both preventing drug abuse and guiding the addicts towards rehabilitation. SAPP-UMR has successfully initiated programs like the Forum on Responsible Party planning and risk management where they brought together a large student organization with the police chiefs, faculty, student health service physician, and agents from state division on liquor to discuss and enlighten students on legal and medical aspects of alcohol use.

The program, seen as effective among the students, is predominantly funded by the administrative offices and enabled to carry out their activities without challenges.

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The group is marketed through various presentations made before campus groups, through a brochure advertising their services, through on-campus and off-campus media, through word of mouth by students, the faculty and the staff. The success of the program can be seen from the constant demand from groups like the Greek students group and the publications they get from newsletters and acceptance of their information on pamphlets by the students, faculty and the staff in general. There has been unanimous positive feedback that the program has also received from the beneficiaries (Burns C.F. And Consolvo C.A., 1992).

Yet another successful preventive program is the Juvenile and Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention Program (JASAP) which is defined as a curriculum-based prevention and health promotion program based in Fulton County-Georgia for youth between the ages of 13 to….....

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