Although preventive efforts hold promise for future generations, for millions of children and adolescents prevention comes too late.
Both officials said that nationwide educational and preventive efforts were working, especially among the young.
"For most preventive efforts there is an upfront expense," said Alan D. Aviles, president of the corporation.
Like many preventive efforts, she said, fighting introduced species is a tough sell in the arena of politics.
There was already strong evidence that drug addiction was a biologically and psychologically complex illness one far more amenable to preventive efforts and medical care than to punishment.
But the statement also sought to assure people that the federal, state and territory governments were working together to strengthen preventive efforts and build social cohesion.
The foundation, based in Princeton, N.J., decided to fund preventive efforts based on research, including from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
Preventive efforts incur costs up-front, but their payoffs may be many years down the line, further, apparently, than most managed care plans are able to see.
To the Editor: Your article gives much deserved credit to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for supporting preventive efforts to reduce relationship abuse among youths.
But he is the guiding spirit of the International Crisis Group, a small outfit dedicated to the preventive efforts that governments and multilateral agencies tend to bungle.
Preventive efforts targeting safe sleep continue because recommended infant sleep practices are not universally adopted.
