US: Recent Legislation Can Dramatically Improve Substance Use Prevention: Here’s How To Seize The Opportunity (Commentary) (May require free registration)
Health Affairs – June 10, 2021
To really meet the goal of preventing substance use and addiction, we have to fundamentally rethink our approach by both starting prevention efforts earlier in a child’s life and broadening the lens of what we consider to be effective prevention. Fortunately, with new and emerging legislation from the Biden administration, we seem to be on the cusp of an unprecedented opportunity to accomplish this much needed shift. Although preventing youth substance use is not the stated intention of the administration’s Build Back Better plan, many of the initiatives within the already passed or proposed components of the plan seek to invest in children and families in ways that undoubtedly will help to mitigate the risk factors known to contribute to youth substance use and the incidence of addiction in the United States.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210607.239986/full/