SAMHSA – Implementing Community-Level Policies to Prevent Alcohol Misuse Resource Guide The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) created a resource guide to help communities learn about policy research and implementation strategies around preventing alcohol misuse. The first link provides a two-page overview of the resource guide, and the second link is the guide itself.
Data Collection for Alcohol Policy Change: A Toolkit for Local Coalitions This toolkit shows how you can start collecting data around your community's alcohol landscape. If your community wants to collect and use this kind of data or is already collecting data, let us know and we may be able to collaborate.
Community Preventive Services Task Force Recommended Strategies
The Community Preventive Services Task Force is made up of 15 members, appointed by the CDC Director. The task force conducted a review of strategies to reduce excessive alcohol consumption, finding sufficient evidence to recommend the seven strategies below. The links go to the summary pages, which contain brief descriptions of the strategies and justifications, including links to dive deeper into the research underlying the recommendations.
ChangeLab solutions produced several flyers that describe the benefits of policies in reducing excessive alcohol use. These are useful for a quick overview on the policies below.
The links below are a selection of larger reports and collections of resources from organizations doing work in alcohol policy. These are useful for further exploring community strategies for reducing excessive alcohol use.
The Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project has prepared a variety of materials to help Wisconsin communities enact policies to reduce excessive alcohol consumption. Although some of the information and materials are specific to Wisconsin, many of the fact sheets and report material can be applied to Iowa and other states as well.
CDC – Excessive Alcohol Use This page briefly describes the health effects of excessive alcohol use and the various response strategies supported by national and state agencies and organizations.
CDC – Preventing Excessive Alcohol Use The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends several state, local, and individual strategies to reduce excessive alcohol use.
CDC – Addressing Excessive Alcohol Use: State Fact Sheets These state fact sheets give top-line statistics about alcohol use, including number of deaths from excessive drinking, binge drinking percentage, and other binge drinking statistics.
CDC – Prevalence and Costs of Excessive Drinking This page displays data about binge drinking and the costs of excessive alcohol use in the United States. Iowa has one of the highest binge drinking prevalence rates in the country.
SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Strategic Prevention Framework can be used to implement effective plans for prevention in communities. Although this framework is general to all substances of misuse, it’s useful for alcohol prevention efforts.
