This resource guide was written for teachers; school counselors and nurses; principals and school administrators; other professionals in health care, family planning, alcohol and other drug abuse (AODA) prevention and treatment; and community agencies who work with pregnant teenagers and their partners. It is designed to help these practitioners…

This document was written to help school officials and staff in implementing local comprehensive chemical dependency prevention programs. It presents guidelines which are meant to encourage the development of comprehensive written policies regarding chemical use, abuse, and dependency. Some basic information about chemical use and abuse is…

This brochure, directed towards pregnant women, describes the dangers of alcohol, street drugs, smoking, and prescription drugs or over-the-counter medicines. It presents a story (in the mother's words) of a woman who took drugs to get high while pregnant and the ill effects on her son. The brochure claims being drug free means being a better…

Work-related problems associated with employees who abuse alcohol and/or other drugs are briefly reviewed in this pamphlet to encourage employers to consider setting up a substance abuse program in their companies and businesses. The pamphlet then goes on to explain briefly each of five steps involved in developing a workplace substance abuse…

This book was written for parents interested in preventing alcohol and other drug abuse by their daughters. It addresses special risks that girls face and notes that recent research challenges long-held beliefs that alcohol and other drug abuse problems among females are the same as those among males. The word "drug" is used to include alcohol,…