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Substance Misuse Prevention
The issue of substance misuse prevention is an effort that requires us to work together in the development of strategies and in finding ways of implementing those strategies into the community as a whole.
We help support other programs and other efforts and try to find ways within the already existing community agencies to fill gaps in services. It is our hope that all members of the community who have a concern about this will become a part of this effort. POP is a member of the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America and the Prevention Alliance of Tennessee. The primary support for the current activities of PoP is a prevention grant that came through those organizations. Address the opioid crisis by increasing access to medication-assisted treatment using the three FDA-approved medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder, reducing unmet treatment need, and reducing opioid overdose related deaths through the provision of prevention, treatment, and recovery activities for opioid use disorder (OUD) (including illicit use of prescription opioids, heroin, and fentanyl and fentanyl analogs). With the help of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) program, it also supports my use of evidence-based prevention, treatment, and recovery support services to address stimulant misuse and use disorders, including for cocaine and methamphetamine.
International Overdose Awareness
Environmental Strategy
Environmental strategies are focused on changing aspects of the environment that contribute to the use of alcohol and other drugs. Specifically, environmental strategies aim to decrease the social and health consequences of substance abuse by limiting access to substances and changing social norms that are accepting and permissive of substance abuse. They can change public laws, policies, and practices to create environments that decrease the probability of substance abuse. (As defined by Wisconsin Clearinghouse: Click here for source)
CADCA provides a two-part series in which the Director of CADCA's National Coalition Institute, defines environmental strategies and discusses how coalitions can begin to assess their community to determine which strategies best suit their needs.
