Designed to help program planners, communities and others to develop an effective and comprehensive systems approach to fighting the war against alcohol and other drug use among youth in their communities. Explains how individual, interpersonal, and environmental situations and conditions contribute to alcohol and other drug use. Provides strategies for combating each of these forces. Case studies of model communities around the country are described. Includes worksheets, planning charts, and other aids.

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Authors Raymond P. Daugherty and Carl Leukefeld argue for replacing the youth-based, `zero tolerance' approach to substance abuse prevention that has been dominant in the field over the past two decades. Their dynamic alternative is the Lifestyle Risk Reduction Model, which revises standard prevention strategies to make them relevant throughout the entire life span. Features of this revolutionary new paradigm include Five Principles of Lifestyle Risk Reduction (LRR), Five Conditions of Effective LRR, and the LLR Formulas.