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Community Strategies to Combat the Prescription Drug Epidemic

The prescription drug epidemic poses a significant threat to public health, affecting individuals, families, and communities. Collaboration is crucial in addressing this crisis through education, prevention programs, and support services. This initiative encourages community members, healthcare providers, and local organizations to join forces, share resources, and develop effective responses tailored to their unique needs. Together, we can create a robust network that raises awareness, offers support, and fosters healthier environments, ultimately reducing the impact of prescription drug misuse.

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Community Strategies to Combat the Prescription Drug Epidemic

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  1. The Prescription Drug Epidemic Crafting a community response
  2. Rx = prescription medications, OTC medications of abuse, i.e. cough syrupsAbuse = any use of Rx by a person other than to whom it was prescribed, or use of an OTC med for an effect other than indicated on label (psychoactive, meth manufacture, etc.) For this workshop:
  3. How do we know there’s a problem in this community?
  4. What arenas of possible action exist?
  5. Seven Strategies for Community Changefrom Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) Strategies 1-3 build capacity and mostly affect individuals 1. Providing Information—Presentations, workshops , newsletters or other presentations of data 2. Enhancing Skills—Workshops, seminars or other activities designed to increase the skills of participants, members and staff needed to achieve population-level outcomes 3. Providing Support—Creating opportunities to support people to participate in activities that reduce risk or enhance protection, i.e. neighborhood watch
  6. Seven Strategies, continued Strategies 4-7 are mostly population level, affecting larger groups 4. Enhancing Access/Reducing Barriers—Improving systems and processes to increase the ease, ability and opportunity to utilize those systems and services, i.e., assuring childcare, transportation, housing, safety, special needs, cultural and language sensitivity. 5. Changing Consequences (Incentives/Disincentives)—Increasing or decreasing the probability of a specific behavior that reduces risk or enhances protection by altering the consequences for that behavior, i.e. tobacco/alcohol taxes and retailer compliance checks, fines, revocations/loss of privileges.
  7. Seven Strategies, continued again 6. Physical Design—Changing the physical design or structure of the environment to reduce risk or enhance protection, i.e., changes to parks, landscapes, signage, lighting, etc. 7. Modifying/Changing Policies—Formal change in written procedures, by-laws, proclamations, rules or laws, i.e., workplace initiatives, law enforcement procedures
  8. All this is great, but….
  9. Crafting efforts for multiple impacts Since 2006, National Night Out block parties have resulted in the arrests of 2 drug dealers, the formation of 2 neighborhood watch groups, the rescue of an elderly woman from a house fire, 1 reduced speed limit in a residential area and 2 new stop signs in neighborhoods with young children.
  10. The White House Plan – April 2011 aims to reduce abuse rates of some prescription drugs by 15 percent over five years and reduce unintentional overdose deaths. would require drugmakers to raise awareness about the dangers of painkillers like OxyContin and seek legislation to require doctors to get training before they could prescribe such drugs. calls for spending more than $200 million more on drug prevention and treatment programs in the 2012 fiscal year.

  11. But, what are we really doing about Rx drugs?

    Safe storage & disposal brochures in English/Spanish, full color Rx takebacks Media blitz—everywhere, every chance we get
  12. Rx Takebacks
  13. Evaluating the Effort
  14. Accountability Your results might be good, but are they also easy to digest?
  15. Questions/Comments?
  16. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND FOR THE COMMUNITY WORK YOU DO! Eve Flanigan, MPH Program Manager Carlsbad Community Anti-Drug/Gang Coalition PO Box 1867, Carlsbad, NM 88221-1867 575-642-4825 Jump.clear@plateautel.net www.carlsbadcoalition.net
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