Conference Edition Fall 2000

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Prevention Training Brief
What Is Prevention ?
Communities Can Succeed
Conference Edition Fall 2000
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Training Brief What Is Prevention? Communities
Can Succeed
Prefatory Note The following training brief is
a conference edition piloted for the National
Prevention Network (NPN) Research Conference,
September 2000. It is provided to prevention
specialists for use in orienting prevention
practitioners and orienting lay audiences about
basic prevention concepts. These slides and
their associated talking points can help to give
a common understanding and script to prevention
practitioners who may further communicate these
ideas in their communities, such as in orienting
volunteers and civic leaders. This briefing can
be downloaded in Microsoft Power Point format
from the Center for Substance Abuse Preventions
decision support system web site http//www.prev
entiondss.org/html/products.htm
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What Is Prevention ?
Communities Can Succeed
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Prevention Is Action
Prevention is a proactive process which
empowers individuals and systems to meet
challenges of life events and transitions by
creating and reinforcing conditions that promote
healthy behaviors and life styles. Center
for Substance Abuse Prevention
Prevention
Action that leads to planned change which
creates conditions that give persons the best
chance of success in their lives and community.
It advocates actions, policies and procedures to
shape our culture in support of healthier lives.

Prevention
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Continuum
Treatment
Intervention Spectrum
Maintenance
Prevention
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Supply Reduction
Cutting the drug supply is important, but it does
not explain all of the use trends
Over the past 10 years more marijuana was seized
and more arrests made, but use stayed steady
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Attitude Counts
Disapproval of drug use begins to drop after 1990
Use begins to level after 1997
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Perception of the risk of drug use begins to
weaken after 1991
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Percents reporting past month marijuana use
Percents reference attitudes
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Use starts to rise in 1992
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Remember marijuana seizures were climbing from
92 - 97 but use did not drop.
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Health Science
Malaria
Drugs
Health professionals in all fields are working
more than ever to prevent health problems before
they require expensive treatment.
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Public Health Triangle
Agent/Drug

• Supply Reduction
• Laws and policies
• Increase cost
• Reduce access

• Demand Reduction
• Individual Change
• Knowledge
• Attitude/norms
• Beliefs

Environment
Host/Person

• Demand Reduction
• System Change
• Family
• School
• Workplace
• Community

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Host Strategies
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Environment Strategies
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Support Treatment Assessment Referral Intervention
Early Identification Policy Alternatives Skill
Building Information
Prevention
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Systematic Action
Family Religious Institutions Media School Workpla
ce Community Local Government Social
Services Criminal Justice Treatment/Health
Services Aftercare/Relapse prevention
Tobacco
School
Support Treatment Assessment Referral Intervention
Early Identification Policy Alternatives Skill
Building Information
Information
Prevention
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Prevention Works

• Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
• National Institute for Drug Abuse
• Research Foundations and Universities
• Community Research and Evaluation

National Center for the Advancement of Prevention
Science
Communities

• State Prevention Networks
• Community Coalitions
• Committed educators, religious
• and civic leaders, employers,
• healthcare providers, journalists
• YOU

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Prevention Matters