Programs

Academic detailing is education outreach to prescribers by trained health care professionals or preventionists. The academic detailer contacts and schedules brief face-to-face information sharing sessions with health care providers usually during working hours and within the office setting.

Alcohol advertising and promotion creates an environment that encourages underage and/or binge drinking behaviors. Restrictions on alcohol advertising includes any policies that limit advertising of alcoholic beverages; particularly advertising that exposes young people to alcohol messages.

Curriculum Based Support Group (CBSG) is a research-based prevention program that is intended for the selective and indicated populations. This program infuses coping, social, and substance misuse prevention components to effectively serve the intended population.

Alcohol compliance checks are a tool law enforcement may use to reduce the availability of alcohol to underage youth from commercial sources such as bars, restaurants, liquor stores, grocery stores and convenience stores. By preventing youth access from commercial sources, communities can reduce the negative consequences associated with underage drinking, thereby creating a safer, healthier environment for their youth.

Alcohol outlet density, is the concentration of retail alcohol establishments, including bars and restaurants and liquor or package stores, in a given geographic area. One of the most effective approaches for reducing excessive drinking and its many health and social consequences is to limit the physical availability of alcohol.

The availability of alcohol at community events (such as concerts, county fairs, street fairs and sporting events) increases convenient and public access to alcohol. It is important to note that research shows that the greater the number of alcohol control policies in place, the less the likelihood of alcohol sales to underage customers and over consumption.

Drug-related crimes can be reduced using environmental strategies and, when properly implemented, can improve the safety and livability of specific areas or whole neighborhoods. Strategies that focus on changing physical design want to modify the conditions that give rise to criminal behavior.

A civil remedy may be used in place of—or often in tandem with—criminal penalties as an incentive for a person or business to refrain from the focus of concern. Civil remedies can also induce changes to property conditions and practices that facilitate crime.