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Take Action: Five Policies America Must Adopt to Reduce and Prevent Substance Abuse
This booklet outlines five recommended policies that American communities can adopt to reduce and prevent substance abuse.These policies, offered as a call to action, include: - Compel substance abuse treatment for criminal offenders
- Ensure that every person who has an addiction gets treatment
- Make substance abuse prevention an urgent priority in every community
- Increase taxes on alcohol and tobacco
- Provide media time for counter-advertisements portraying the health risks associated with alcohol that is equal to the time spent promoting alcohol
These recommendations are based on three national surveys conducted by Join Together, as well as the deliberations of four national policy panels that studied underage drinking, criminal justice issues, substance abuse treatment and prevention.
Publication Year: 1996
Publisher Join Together Boston University School of Public Health 715 Albany St, 580 -- 3rd Floor Boston, ma 02118 Phone: 617-437-1500 Website: http://www.jointogether.orgEmail: info@jointogether.org
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Boston University School of Public Health 
