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Monitoring Trends: Use of Local Data

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Prevention of Substance Use

Part of the book series: Advances in Prevention Science ((Adv. Prevention Science))

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Understanding the complexity of patterns and trends in substance use is essential for effectively planning, selecting, and implementing local substance-use prevention interventions. This chapter summarises the background for developing methods to monitor substance-use patterns within well-defined populations. Such surveillance and monitoring systems help identify not only the types of psychoactive substances that are being consumed but also how they are used and the characteristics of those using them. This information can be used to gain support for and sustain prevention efforts over time and provide a baseline against which assessments can be made to determine their impact.

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  1. Head of Public Health Unit, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Lisbon, Portugal

    Jane Mounteney

  2. Scientific Director, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), Lisbon, Portugal

    Paul Griffiths

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  1. Applied Prevention Science International, Ontario, OH, USA

    Zili Sloboda

  2. AIR, Washington, DC, USA

    Hanno Petras

  3. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

    Elizabeth Robertson

  4. Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Rockville, MD, USA

    Ralph Hingson

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Mounteney, J., Griffiths, P. (2019). Monitoring Trends: Use of Local Data. In: Sloboda, Z., Petras, H., Robertson, E., Hingson, R. (eds) Prevention of Substance Use. Advances in Prevention Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00627-3_14

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