An estimated 1 million people in the United States are living with HIV/AIDS. In this country, annual reported AIDS cases peaked in 1993 at approximately 80,000. While declining steadily between 1993 and 1998, since 2001 the incidence of new AIDS cases has increased slightly each year, with approximately 42,500 new cases reported in 2004.
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States. Despite a decline in smoking in the past 50 years, (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2016) 40 million adults and more than three and a half million adolescents (CDC, 2018) continue to smoke.
The U.S. opioid overdose epidemic has affected millions of families and thousands of communities across the country. From 1999 to 2016, more than 350,000 people died from opioid overdoses (CDC, 2017). Currently, more than 115 people die of an opioid overdose every day (CDC, 2017).
Excessive alcohol consumption causes 88,000 deaths in the U.S.
Provides up-to-date, accurate information that will be useful to renew prevention and intervention efforts against marijuana.
Strategizer 56: Creating Healthy, Tobacco-Free Environments highlights recommendations by the Task Force on Community Preventive Services (TFCPS) to reduce tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure.Using data analysis and conclusions from various sources, Strategizer 56 provides strategies coalitions can implement at the local level to prevent and reduce tobacco use.
Find the best way your community coalition can assist college and university officials address alcohol and drug prevention.
Developed in collaboration with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), this Practical Theorist provides an overview of inhalant abuse and how it impacts the developing mind and body. It also describes potential warning signs, strategies that co alitions can use to prevent inhalant abuse and real-life examples of prevention efforts from two communities.
Strategizer 55, Regulating Alcohol Outlet Density: An Action Guide, outlines available evidence-based community prevention strategies shown to decrease the consequences associated with alcohol outlet density, the concentration of bars, restaurants serving alcohol, liquor and package stores in a given geographic area.