Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #116458

Kevin D. Hennessy, PhD, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1 Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857, 240 276 2234, khenness@samhsa.gov

SAMHSA began systematic collection of evidence-based substance abuse prevention activities as an effort to highlight a small number of interventions that had demonstrated effective outcomes. Two important trends, however, have influenced the expected utility of NREPP. First, the primary funding sources for prevention (Federal and state government, and health maintenance organizations) increasingly expect accountability in their investments in preventing drug and alcohol use. Second, the field has identified a growing set of prevention activities based on improved understanding of the mechanisms relating psychobiological and environmental factors to drug and alcohol abuse. As a result of these trends, SAMHSA anticipates changes in how the inclusion of a substance abuse prevention program or practice in NREPP may affect prevention activities at the community level. This presentation will discuss these changes and their implications for the how prevention activities will be developed and implemented in the future.

Learning Objectives:

• 1. Awareness of trends in the funding and development of substance abuse prevention that influences the role of NREPP.
• 2. Identification of possible implications of the changing role of NREPP on development of innovative prevention programs and practices.
• 3. Identification of possible implications of the changing role of NREPP on the adoption and implementation of prevention programs and practices at the community level.

Keywords: Evidence Based Practice, Substance Abuse Prevention

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.