during Use of substance prevention month And year-by-year, there are many opportunities for the cooperative sector (beyond the regions and partners) to develop and implement widespread prevention approaches.

The prevention wants to prevent the initiation of the use of the substance, to prevent the progression of the use of the substance (for a substance use disorder), and prevents the damage associated with the use of the substance.

Effective prevention focus on strategies Strengthening protective factors and reducing risk factors (PDF | 146 KB) – In individuals, families, schools, communities and society (based on social ecological models). These factors include Social determinantCultural effects, and painful experience.

It is important to accept that the use of substance unequally unevenly uneven communities and individuals (eg, members of religious minorities; gay, gay, bidle, transgender, and quarbers (LGBTQ+) affect persons; individuals; individuals; individuals who live in rural areas;

The path traveled after the first use of substances is not predetermined (although it may be affected by genetics and other factors), and it is not the same for all. The prevention of substance use is strengthened by accounting for a congestion of factors that contribute to a person’s journey, such as social climate, environmental component, childhood experiences, and more.

Prevention has three categories of intervention: universal, selective and indicated.

• Universal interventions usually include policies (such as a minimum legal drinking age), school-based programs, positive social norms (belief, approach, a group’s behavior), skill-building (feelings, problem solutions, communication), and healthy options.
• Selective intervention is special, for use with the audience at increased risk.
• Indicated intervention is guided to those who are already involved in a risky behavior (such as use or misuse), or have problems, but who have not yet developed a substance usage disorder.

Prevention Categories (PDF | 3.1 MB)

Psychological factors (psychological factors such as faith, emotional factors such as copying ability and social support such as social support) affect the method that people are engaged with prevention intervention.

All prevention efforts require flexible, overall interventions that increase access (especially to reach people and groups that face complex systemic obstacles).

It is important that there is strategic cooperation in universal, selective and indicated prevention programs. By working together, the prevention program can share resources to achieve synergy in strategy, goals and results. This approach will strengthen the prevention system and address a crowd of variables that put people at risk.

Social determinant

Social determinants of health (SDOH) are conditions in environment where people are born, learn, work, work, play, worship, and age that affects a wide range of health, functioning and quality life consequences and risks. SDOH includes economic stability, education and quality, healthcare access and quality, neighborhood and manufactured environment and social and community references. Each of these five areas helps to run risk and protective factors that can affect the damage related to the use of substance use in a community and the use of substance.

It is important to accept the fundamental effects of health, unfavorable childhood experiences (ACES), and social determinants of painful events that increase the risk for the use and loss of matter. In addition, SDOH has inter -perceived effects that can create cycles of adversity for families.

Note that the risk and protective factors for the use of SDOH and substance is overlap. Shared Risk Factors include:

• Adverseness of early life in the family.
• Low level of family relations.
• Less socio -economic status.
• School closure (before completion).
• Unhealthy housing.
• Adversity of the neighborhood.
• Structural oppression (eg racism, classism, genderism, aspirationalism).

Shared protective factors include:

• Conversation of positive parents and children.
• Participation of parents.
• Family approval.
• Nutrition environment.
• Relative and sense of relationship.
• Culture (relationship with one’s culture).
• Access to quality education.

Understanding of these effects (SDOH, ACES, and trauma) at the risk use risk, prevention with roadmap for action provides to physicians and prevention partners. It is a roadmap to enhance and strengthen widespread prevention systems and strategies that can improve the lives of individuals, families and communities.

Prevention that is strong together

Prevention strategies should include an understanding of life experiences (in which people are born) that affect risk and protective factors – and move upwards to overtake the challenges.

• Construct and implement action plans to address those factors – at the community, city, county and state levels to address those factors to identify the risk and protective factors – and address those factors. These collaborative models try to create coordination within and within, to create true changes.
• The prevention scheme includes community anchor organizations (incorporating community-led organizations that are chasing overall, multi-level solutions).
• Get a strength-based approach, accepting the basic effects of SDOH, Aces and painful events.
• Take a holistic approach. This includes several, interacted health conditions (such as the use of substance, mental health status, sexually transmitted infection) and SDOH that can interact within the population to adversely affect health.
• Integrate integrated experiences by involving people from understanding people from understanding communities in program design, development and implementation.

To create a strategic, strong prevention system that maximizes resources, meets the needs of individuals and communities, and the use of substance moves upwards to move beyond challenges, we need:

• Cooperate in prevention of continuity.
• Embrace culture – including culture as a protective factor.
• Address the social determinants of health.
• Formed alliances and partnerships in areas.
• Ensure that our prevention work is focused in the sounds and experiences of those most affected.

We are strong together.

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