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Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Rockville, MD 20857 September 1995

Dear Colleague:

I am happy to provide you with an important new CSAP product for communicating the benefits of substance abuse prevention, "Drug-Free for a New Century: A Chart Book." This is a document that provides you with the latest facts about preventing drug abuse.

The CSAP chart book has been designed for easy duplication and adaptation for use in your presentations before groups and organizations interested in preventing alcohol and other drug abuse. You may want to copy selected pages as enclosures to mailings, handouts at meetings, or attachments to letters to media or decision makers when attempting to encourage others to become more involved in substance abuse prevention. The complete document is a comprehensive overview of substance abuse prevention issues, and can easily be made into overhead transparencies for group presentations. Individual charts offer excellent graphics for newsletters and bulletins. These materials are in the public domain; anyone is welcome and encouraged to copy them, incorporate them into other materials, and distribute them to others.

Current public- and private-sector discussions of how to best meet the needs of America's youth, and the environments in which they learn and grow, offer a unique opportunity to talk more about the need for substance abuse prevention if we are to reduce injury, disease, disability, and crime. Please help us make sure the valuable information in CSAP's chart book reaches all those who can further help prevent the tremendous problems associated with substance abuse.

I want to hear about your experiences in using this product. And I look forward to your ideas about making this important information accessible and useful to others.

Sincerely,

Elaine M. Johnson, Ph.D.
Director
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention