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Prevention is the best strategy. These prevention programs work to boost protective factors and eliminate or reduce risk factors for drug use. The programs are designed for various ages and can be used in individual or group settings, such as the school and home. There are three types of programs:
26 Σεπ 2024 · Many prevention strategies aim to prevent not only substance use and substance use disorders but other harms associated with drug use, such as drug overdoses, infectious diseases, or injuries. Some strategies aim to do so by preventing drug use directly.
26 Οκτ 2022 · Decades of research have shown that some harm reduction strategies provide significant individual and public health benefits, 4,5,6 including preventing deaths from overdoses and preventing transmission of infectious diseases among people who use drugs and the larger community.
17 Σεπ 2019 · Prevention programs that met the criteria are school and college based, family-based, community based, peer-led, workplace-based, and technology-based interventions. They target the known modifiable risk factors associated with illicit drug use among adolescents and young adults.
Providing effective prevention, treatment and care services for drug use disorders as part of an integrated and well-coordinated treatment system is therefore an investment in the health of people with drug use disorders.
24 Απρ 2023 · Harm reduction approaches have proven to prevent death, injury, disease, overdose, and substance misuse. Harm reduction is effective in addressing the public health epidemic involving substance use as well as infectious disease and other harms associated with drug use.
Prevention strategies based on scientific evidence working with families, schools, and communities can ensure that children and youth, especially the most marginalized and poor, grow and stay healthy and safe into adulthood and old age. For every dollar spent on prevention, at least ten can be saved in future health, social and crime costs.
