NATIONAL STUDIES
American Medical Association - Universities and community groups can work together to change local public policies
to reduce alcohol problems. This book presents the case histories of how four
campus-community coalitions in Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska and Vermont worked in
2000-02 through media advocacy, strategic planning and community organizing to
help change policies and the community environments that affect student high-risk
drinking.
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A Matter of Degree: Advocacy Initiative - Case Histories in Reducing High Risk
Drinking Among College Students (last updated 10/03)
Institute of Medicine of The National Academies - The Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council have released a
landmark study, "Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility." The American Medical Association's Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Use has
developed a tool kit to assist local coalitions and advocates in taking the study's
recommendations and advancing local and state policy and prevention initiatives.
Monitoring the Future Study - In 2004 the Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth is
conducted at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research marked
its 30th year of conducting national surveys of substance use among American young
people. Beginning with the first surveys of high school seniors in 1975, the
study has provided the nation with a window through which to view the important,
but largely hidden, problem behaviors of illicit drug use, alcohol use, and cigarette
smoking.
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Volume 1: Secondary School Students
Volume 2: College Students and Adults Ages 19 - 45
National Survey on Drug Use and Health - SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health [formerly called the National
Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA)] is the primary source of information
on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal
drug use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population,
age 12 and older. It is currently conducted by SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies (OAS), periodically since 1972 and annually since 1991, the survey has undergone various
methodological improvements.
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Results 2004 - National Survey on Drug Use and Health: National Findings (last updated 9/8/2005)
Partnership Attitude Tracking Study - The Partnership Attitude Tracking Study (PATS) is The Partnership's unique
contribution to the field of substance abuse prevention. An annual study that
tracks the elaborate and complex attitudes consumers have about illegal drugs,
this research allows us to understand what our target audiences think and feel
about various drugs...
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PATS: Parents with children 18 and younger
PATS: Teens 2003
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy - A comprehensive web site - MethResources.gov - brings together information and resources available to communities on the
topic of methamphetamine. The site serves as a tool for policymakers, law enforcement
officials, treatment and prevention professionals, businesses and retailers, and
anti-drug leaders.
