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Community Based Drug Prevention: Comprehensive Evaluations of Efforts Are Needed

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 24, 1993
Report No. GGD-93-75
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Summary:

The Community Partnership Demonstration Grant Program is in its third year of funding, and as much as $33 million has been reserved for local evaluation. Yet knowledge of the program's effectiveness in reducing drug abuse is limited and may not be obtainable for local evaluations. A national evaluation of the overall effectiveness of the program's approach will not be completed until 1998. Until this evaluation is finished, it will be hard for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, to show that the program is actually reducing drug abuse. Moreover, the Center will have only a limited knowledge base from which to draw in providing technical help to communities designing prevention programs.

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