Other programmes, from help with birth-control and HIV-prevention to counselling against drugabuse and domestic violence, will be made smaller or eliminated altogether.
The policy guidance issued by HHS and State requires that SSPs be implemented as part of a comprehensive program for injection drug users that includes linkage and referral to substance abuseprevention and treatment services, mental health services, and other support services.
In an effort to develop a comprehensive program for substance abuseprevention there, the Asian Health Coalition banded together with various sectors of the Chinatown community in 2007 to create the Coalition for Asian Substance AbusePrevention (CASAP), a grantee in the Drug Free Communities Support Program.
We are also striving to stop substance abuse before it starts by supporting local prevention programs and providing youth with the facts about alcohol and drug use.