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Email to a friendEnvironmental Management: An Approach To Alcohol And Other Drug Prevention
William DeJong .
Most campus AOD programs include prevention, intervention, and treatment services designed to address individual studentsà knowledge of the consequences of AOD use, to improve their skills in resisting such behavior, or to address existing problematic use of or addiction to alcohol or other drugs. Research shows, however, that campuses have had limited success when prevention efforts are limited to these traditional activities. The reason is simple: these activities are designed to prompt individual students to make different decisions about using alcohol and other drugs without making changes in the environment in which they make those decisions. The field of public health recognizes that health-related behaviors are influenced by multiple factors: individual factors, peer factors, institutional factors, community factors, and public policy. Successful prevention programs address all of these factors in a comprehensive approach.
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