Substance Abuse Prevention Programs

Introduction Throughout the United States, there are several substance abuse prevention programs. Substance abuse prevention programs are programs designed to help prevent the use of illegal and legal substances among individuals and families. Substance abuse prevention programs in the United States often targets adults. There countless substance abuse prevention programs for adults but not as many for adolescents and children. The focuses of the prevention programs chosen aimed at adolescents because sometimes they seem to go unnoticed, especially on the terms of substance abuse. These programs focus on the underage drinking of adolescents at home parties and the overall use of alcoholic beverages among adolescents. The first program

According to research youth who has rules and set guidelines of not using alcohol and other drugs set by parents are more likely not to use them, then adolescents who do (Guide, 2018). Safe Homes Program adapted from a high school activity. It became an effective way for adolescents to work with parents to prevent at home drinking. Amherst Regional High school helped formulate the program to what it has come to today. The activity was set out as a youth action team effort activity to prevent drinking at parties. And it later turned into a program developed statewide. The program was started in Massachusetts and has spread throughout the United States. The family focused treatment model used in the program is the context-focused therapy and problem-solving skills resulting in improving functions of communication by changing and adapting the task focus and environment of individuals

This is due to the over consumption of alcohol use (Abuse, 2003). “Since the mid-1980s, the nation has launched aggressive underage drinking prevention efforts at the federal, state, and local levels, and national epidemiologic data suggest that these efforts are having positive effects” (Frances M.Harding, 2016). The ASAPP and SAFE HOMES Program as helped reduce the negative effects of underage drinking resulting in a decline since 2011 to 2017. According the NIDA, the median age in which youth begin drinking is 12. Based on statistics youths who drink before the age of 15 becomes likely addicted to alcohol causing a dependence for it before age 21. Harding research indicates that evidence based and promised strategies for the prevention of adolescents drinking involves limitation of economic, social and physical ability of alcohol and other drugs to youth access. This prevention provides mechanisms for early indications of problem drinkers or individuals with addictive behaviors (Frances M.Harding, 2016). Both prevention programs implement social, physical and economic attributes to ensure the need to decrease and eliminated underage drinking. Komro describes the approaches developed to prevent underage drinking in the United States. The approaches include school-based prevention programs that involves curricula targeted at preventing alcohol. Including, extracurricular projects,