Guidance

Preventing drug and alcohol misuse: effective interventions

A summary of international evidence on effective alcohol and drug misuse prevention interventions and examples of their use in England.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 1 July 2015

Documents

Preventing drug and alcohol misuse: international evidence and implementation examples

PDF, 296 KB, 20 pages

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email publications@phe.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Details

This guide helps people who commission and develop strategies and interventions to prevent harmful alcohol and drug use.

It provides:

• a summary of the United Nations Office of Drug Control (UNODC) international drug use prevention standards
• a summary of how effective each type of drug prevention intervention is
• examples of relevant UK guidelines, programmes and interventions

This guidance can help local authority commissioners and drug prevention practitioners to:

• translate the UNODC standards to English settings
• develop and put in place evidence-based prevention strategies

Published 1 July 2015