What Works: Effective Public Health Responses to Drug Use
March 2008
In this booklet ONDCP highlights several of the cost-effective, research-tested demand reduction initiatives that have proven successful in the United States and could be helpful to countries around the world in addressing their own drug abuse challenges. The following pages will focus on such proven initiatives as:
- Launching a comprehensive youth anti-drug media campaign
- Building successful community coalitions
- Employing drug testing in the workplace and at schools
- Screening and intervening to interrupt the cycle of drug abuse
- Providing quality drug treatment services at low cost
- Establishing drug treatment courts
