Discuss the elements of drug prevention and treatment in the United States

What will be an ideal response?

The answer should contain the following points:


  • prevention programs:

  • eleven model programs and twenty-one promising programs

  • Life Skills Training (LST); Midwestern Prevention Project (MPP); Project Toward No Drug Abuse (Project TND)

  • three substance abuse prevention programs in schools conducted by police departments across the country—Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E); School Program to Educate and Control Drug Abuse (SPECDA); Project Alert

  • treatment interventions

  • Substance abusers who are involved in serious forms of delinquency will likely be placed in county or state facilities whose basic organizational goals are custodial and security oriented. They will receive some substance abuse counseling, especially in group contexts.

  • strict enforcement:

  • “war on drugs” program

  • heavy penalties associated with the sale of illicit drugs

  • law enforcement’s targeting of dealers

  • policing of the sale of tobacco products

  • strict enforcement of no-drug zones around schools

  • strict enforcement of adolescent drug trafficking at schools

  • harm reduction

  • an approach designed to reduce the harm done to youths by drug use and by the severe penalties resulting from drug use and sales

  • programs in which health professionals administer drugs to addicts as part of a treatment and detoxification regimen

  • drug-treatment facilities available for those drug addicts wishing to enter treatment

  • needle exchange programs intended to slow the transmission of HIV

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