December 2008 |
Screening and Brief Intervention:
Making a Public Health Difference
This policy report serves as a primer on screening and brief interventions (SBI) issues, covers barriers to expanded utilization, and recommends ways to boost understanding and usage of this important public health tool. |
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September 2007 |
Prevention Education in America's Schools: Findings and Recommendations from a Survey of Educators
We asked 3,500 teachers, school administrators, and other educators to tell us what is really happening when alcohol and drug education gets squeezed in with an ever-growing list of requirements in schools across the nation. Find out what we learned. |
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Advocacy With Anonymity
This brochure encourages people in recovery to speak out and share their experiences with policy makers, civic groups and other community leaders without violating anonymity traditions of 12-step groups.
December 2006
Advocacy with Anonymity (PDF, 900k)
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Entre Nosotros: Respetando el Anonimato en los Programas de Rehabilitación
¿Cómo podemos ayudar a los demás, a ejercer nuestros derechos mientras mantenemos el anonimato y respetamos las reglas tradicionales del programa de los Doce Pasos?
January 2007
Entre Nosotros (PDF, 1.6 MB)
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Blueprint for the States
Members of a 2006 national policy panel, chaired by former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, developed recommendations for how states should organize their alcohol and drug agencies and policies.
June 2006
Blueprint for the States (PDF, 427k)
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Demand Treatment! Lessons Learned
Tells the success stories of 28 communities that developed and implemented strategies to drive up the demand for treatment even as the availability of treatment for substance use disorders declined throughout the rest of the nation.
January 2006
Demand Treatment! (PDF, 184k)
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Improving the Quality of Drug and Alcohol Treatment
Join Together and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) created this action kit to help communities break the cycle of poor addiction treatment outcomes and misperceptions about substance use disorders.
October 2005
Improving the Quality of Treatment (PDF, 268k)
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How Do We Know We Are Making A Difference? A Community Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drug Indicators Handbook
This handbook is designed to help communities develop indicators, information collected by an organization and other local data, that describe the scope and nature of local substance abuse problems.
September 2005
How do we know we are making a difference? (PDF, 2.4 MB)
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Lessons Learned from
Fighting Back
This document summarizes findings from empirical studies on the Fighting Back program as well as lessons learned from Fighting Back conferences.
January 2005
Fighting Back (PDF, 168k)
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Ten Drug and Alcohol Policies That Will Save Lives
Community leaders across the country are grappling with problems caused by drug and alcohol use. Everyone wants to know: What really works? What policies are the most effective in preventing and treating these problems? How can we save lives?
March 2004
Ten Drug and Alcohol Policies (PDF, 109k)
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Rewarding Results: Improving the Quality of Treatment for People with Alcohol and Drug Problems
In December 2002, Join Together convened a national, non-partisan panel of experts and asked them to develop specific recommendations to improve the treatment of substance use disorders.
December 2003
Rewarding Results (PDF, 239k)
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Report: National Poll of Physicians Prescribing Buprenorphine
In the summer of 2003, Join Together conducted a brief poll of physicians who are qualified to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid addiction.
October 2003
National Poll of Physicians (PDF, 132k)
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Ending Discrimination Against People with Alcohol and Drug Problems
Members of a 2002 national policy panel developed two principles and ten recommendations to help address discrimination against people with alcohol and drug problems.
April 2003
Ending Discrimination (PDF, 260k)
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Promising Strategies: Results of the Fourth National Survey on Community Efforts to Reduce Substance Abuse and Gun Violence
This booklet discusses findings from Join Together's fourth national survey and provides tips on how communities can use local data in their efforts to reduce substance abuse and gun violence.
February 1999
Promising Strategies (PDF, 342k)
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Treatment for Addiction: Advancing the Common Good
This policy panel report discusses six recommendations from a 1998 Join Together panel on treatment and recovery.
January 1998
Treatment for Addiction (PDF, 4.2 MB)
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Campaign for Treatment: Educating Our Legislators
This action kit helps community leaders bring about policy changes to insure quality addiction treatment, including funding to expand treatment capacity, treatment parity, and drug courts.
January 1998
Campaign for Treatment (PDF, 69k)
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Fixing a Failing System
This report discusses the six recommendations of a 1995 policy panel focusing on how the criminal justice system could better aid communities in overcoming alcohol and drug abuse.
January 1996
Fixing a Failing System (PDF, 3.4 MB)
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