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A Selected List of Publications in Environmental Strategies for
Substance Abuse Prevention and Advocacy
Alcohol:
Catalyst
Catalyst, a publication of the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, helps to facilitate the organization’s mission, which includes assisting institutions of higher education in developing alcohol and other drug prevention policies and programs to foster students= academic and social development and promoting campus and community safety.
To subscribe, go to Catalyst
For more information on this publication, contact:
The Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention
Education Development Center, Inc.
55 Chapel Street
Newton, MA 02458-1060
Phone: (800) 676-1730
Oakland Shows the Way: the Coalition on Alcohol Outlet Issues and Media Advocacy as a Tool for Policy Change
This publication from Berkeley Media Studies Group is a case study examining the way the Coalition on Alcohol Outlet Issues (CAOI) strategically used media advocacy techniques to support the passage of healthy public policy. The CAOI, a group of community activists and service providers, spearheaded a long-term, intensive community organizing effort to pass two precedent-setting ordinances. In addition to community organization and policy development, the coalition used media advocacy during its 4-year effort. The case study discusses local organizing, legal and legislative challenges, building media relationships, framing strategies, and lessons learned.
For more information, contact:
Berkeley Media Studies Group
2140 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 804
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: (510) 204-9700
Fax: (510) 204-9710
Email: bmsg@bmsg.org
Website: www.bmsg.org
Alcohol Policies in the United States: Highlights from the 50 States
Alcohol Policies in the United States: Highlights from the 50 States provides information on patterns and trends of selected alcohol policies around the country across several decades (1968–2000), and on the status of the policies in each state as of January 1, 2000. The policies are grouped together into four major areas of alcohol law: (1) Distribution Systems – how the sale and distribution of alcohol are controlled; (2) Purchase and Sales – beer keg registration and alcohol server training laws; (3) Taxation – changes in excise taxes placed on beer, spirits or hard liquor, and wines; and (4) Drinking and Driving – legal limits on blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels and penalties for violating BAC laws. Alcohol Policies in the United States reports the status of a selected number of alcohol policies and effectively summarizes the key points.
For further information:
Alcohol Epidemiology Program
School of Public Health
University of Minnesota
1300 South Second Street, Suite 300
Minneapolis, MN 55454-1015
Email: AEP@epi.umn.edu
Website: www.epi.umn.edu/alcohol
Environmental Strategies to Prevent Alcohol Problems on College Campuses
This document describes strategies that are used to create healthier campus environments in which alcohol is less available, more responsibly promoted and served, and poses less of a threat to the health, safety, and well-being of all students. The strategies described in this document accomplish these objectives by changing conditions on campuses directly, as well as by coordinating and supporting efforts in communities surrounding campuses and fostering better legislative and policy structure in states to support campus efforts.
For more information, please contact:
Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
11710 Beltsville Dr., Suite 300
Calverton, MD 20705-3102
Fax: 301-755-2799
Email: piccone@pire.ogr
Website: http://www.udetc.org/documents/EnviroStrat.pdf
Illegal Drugs:
Community Kit: Reality Check
In response to communities= concerns about marijuana use among young people, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services= Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) developed Reality Check, a multimedia campaign designed to prevent new use and reduce existing use of marijuana among 9- to 14-year-olds. The Reality Check Community Kit contains ready-to-use media materials, camera-ready artwork, print public service announcements, a list of national resource organizations, and practical information on conducting media outreach and local community campaigns.
DHHS Publication No. (SMA) 98-3219
Reprinted 1998
For more information about Reality Check and related products, contact:
The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)
Phone: (800) 729-6686.
Website: www.health.org
Overcoming the Barriers: Implementing Environmental Approaches to Prevent Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illegal Drug Problems
This paper was prepared by SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) for the HHS Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Initiative, 1998. The work was performed through CSAP’s national center for the Advancement of Prevention. This paper is not designed to summarize the benefits of environmental strategies. Rather, it calls to attention the barriers that may be faced when attempting to implement environmental strategies and suggests methods to respond to the barriers.
Mosher J and Jernigan D. Overcoming the barriers: Implementing environmental approaches to prevent alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drug problems. Working draft, unpublished paper. Rockville, MD: National Center for the Advancement of Prevention, 1998.
SAMSHA’s National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
11426 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD 20847-2345
1-800-729-6686
Strategizer 31: A Series of Technical Assistance Manuals for Community Coalitions, Guidelines for Advocacy: Changing Policies and Laws to Create Safer Environments for Youth
The Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), a membership-driven organization that provides technical assistance and support to anti-drug and drug-related violence coalitions, developed this publication. This Strategizer details criteria for “lobbying” activities for nonprofit organizations, as well as to what extent these organizations can participate in lobbying activities and the legislative process.
For more information about Strategizer, contact:
Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America
901 North Pitt Street, Suite 300
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: (800) 54-CADCA
Website: www.cadca.org
Tobacco:
Clean Indoor Air Resource Binder
www.no-smoke.org
This one-stop binder from Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights is designed specifically for organizers of smokefree policy campaigns. It contains more than 400 pages of up-to-date background materials, many contributed by organizers of successful ordinance initiatives. It also covers every aspect of smokefree ordinance enactment from surveys and polls to ordinance implementation and defending enacted ordinances from tobacco industry attacks.
Contact information:
Americans for Nonsmoker’s Rights
2530 San Pablo Ave, Suite J
Berkeley, CA 94702
Phone: (510) 841-3032
The Tobacco Reference Guide
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg
This book was completed as a resource for the tobacco control community and is based on data compiled from medical and media sources. The author, David Moyer, MD, is a retired Navy Medical Corps captain who served as the Navy Surgeon General’s expert on tobacco from 1991 to 1998.
Tobacco Control
http://tobaccocontrol.org/
Tobacco Control is a quarterly scientific journal and Website that considers all aspects of tobacco prevention and control. The journal’s objectives include the study of the nature and consequences of tobacco use worldwide; the effect of tobacco use on health, the economy, environment, and society; the efforts of the health community and health advocates to prevent and control tobacco use; and the activities of the tobacco industry and its allies to promote tobacco use.
Advocacy:
The Spirit of Coalition
This book provides health practitioners and other public health community workers with down-to-earth details on how coalitions work most effectively in everyday practice.
Ordering information:
American Public Health Association (2000), 259 pp., ISBN 0-87553-244-6
(301) 893-1894
Fax: (301) 843-0159
Web: www.apha.org/media
From the Ground Up! A Workbook on Coalition Building and Community Development
Looking for a "toolbox" for building coalitions and developing healthy communities? There is a science to the art of community development, and this workbook brings it all together.
Ordering information:
AHEC/Community Partners
24 South Prospect Street
Amherst, MA 01002
(413) 253-4283
Fax: (413) 253-7131
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