Influence factors identified may help vocational high school officials design effective illicit drug intervention programs for students with different drug use patterns.
The Office of National Drug Control Policy has continued to boost youth drug abuse intervention programs.
Psychosocial interventions and harm reduction programs, such as needle exchange, condom distribution, and supervised injection facilities, complemented the drug treatment program.
Accordingly, assistance with welfare and access to housing should remain a priority for agencies that serve as a first point of contact for this group, as without such stability drug treatment programs and psychological interventions are unlikely to be effective.
Efforts to reach this population could include provision of treatment and early intervention outside of specialized drug treatment programs, through greater involvement of the mainstream health care system.
Yet the current interventions posited as "alternatives to incarceration"—including drug treatment programs, boot camps, community-based supervision or probation, electronic monitoring, and community service still depend on surveillance, containment, and sometimes punishment.
Prevention strategies could reduce the population burden of AD through the introduction of disease-modifying drug treatments or intervention programs for risk-factor modification [ 10, 11].
The risk of infection as well as border and internal control measures have done more to stop the movement of guns, drugs and humans than any intervention program.
Wallace, he said, was well-known for working on anti-drug and early intervention programs.
