Prevention Science

CAMY MONITORING REPORT: Youth Exposure to Alcohol advertising on Radio 2006

The Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) commissioned Virtual Media Resources to analyze the 337,602 alcohol product advertisements placed on stations in 28 of the largest radio markets in the United States in 2006.

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NIDA: The following reports are from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

:: Drugs, Brains and Behavior: The Science of Addiction_.
This new 36 page full color publication details how science has revolutionized the understanding of drug addiction.  This publication is in the public domain and may be used or reproduced in its entirety without permission from NIDA. Citation of the source is appreciated.

Click here to download a pdf version.

:: NIDA InfoFacts: Lessons from Prevention Research_.
The principles listed in this link are the result of long-term research studies on the origins of drug abuse behaviors and the common elements of effective prevention programs. These principles were developed to help prevention practitioners use the results of prevention research to address drug use among children and adolescents in communities across the country. Parents, educators, and community leaders can use these principles to help guide their thinking, planning, selection, and delivery of drug abuse prevention programs at the community level.

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:: Medical Consequences of Drug Abuse_.
Drug addiction is a brain disease. Although initial drug use might be voluntary, drugs of abuse have been shown to alter gene expression and brain circuitry, which in turn affect human behavior. Once addiction develops, these brain changes interfere with an individual’s ability to make voluntary decisions, leading to compulsive drug craving, seeking and use.

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CSAP's Western CAPT: The following are from CSAP's Western Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies.

The purpose of CSAP's Western CAPT is to assist states, jurisdictions, and community-based prevention programs in the Western Region to apply scientifically-defensible strategies in their efforts to prevent substance abuse. 

Click here to learn more about best practices and the strategic prevention framework.

:: Adolescent Brain Development_.
The brain of the adolescent is unique and differs from that of younger individuals and adults in numerous regions, including those that are critical with respect to alcohol and other drugs. Particular sets of brain circuits are involved in the development of addictions and these are the same ones that are rapidly undergoing change during adolescence. A predisposition for alcohol use may be in part biologically determined by age-specific neural alterations that continue into late adolescence.

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