The Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant (SABG) program is a federal initiative that provides funding to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U. S. Virgin Islands. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) requires that beneficiaries spend at least 20% of their SABG allocation on primary substance abuse prevention strategies.
These strategies are designed to target individuals who have not yet identified the need for treatment. State mental health authorities and individual state agencies can submit requests through the WebBGas electronic application system. When it comes to drug education programs, it is important to consider how teachers carry them out. Research results show that responses vary depending on the type of drug, individual factors, cohort demographics, psychological predisposition, economic circumstances, biological markers, and environmental influences.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) publication Preventing Drug Abuse Among Children and Adolescents, high levels of risk are often accompanied by low levels of protective or preventive factors. Skara & Sussman's summary on the effectiveness of program evaluation studies found long-term empirical evidence of the effectiveness of social influence programs in preventing or reducing substance use up to 15 years after the completion of programming. Grantees should develop a comprehensive primary prevention program that includes activities and services provided in a variety of settings. The 2004 General Social Survey on Victimization revealed that in approximately 52% of violent incidents, the victim believed that the incident was related to alcohol or drug use by the offender.
When designing any drug prevention program, it is important to take into account the principles found in the most promising and successful programs. This includes assigning highly trained professionals to schools to provide a variety of prevention and early intervention services against substance use. The most commonly used illicit drugs were hallucinogens, such as hallucinogenic mushrooms, followed by Ecstasy, Cocaine, Solvents, Stimulants, Glue, and Crystal Methamphetamine, in descending order. Syringe services (SSP) programs are community prevention programs that have proven to be effective and can provide a variety of services such as access to and disposal of sterile syringes and injection equipment, vaccination, testing and linkage to infectious disease care and substance use treatment.
Nearly 30 years of research have shown that comprehensive SSPs are safe, effective and affordable; they do not increase illegal drug use or crime and play an important role in reducing the transmission of viral hepatitis, HIV and other infections. In Canada 14 percent of federal inmates reported being under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time they committed their most serious crime. Problems that often arise in the evaluation phase of school drug prevention programs include random distribution of groups; lack of consent to participate; abandonment of study; and influential interactions between participants in a study.
