Week 4 Reducing Drug Experimentation among Youths Strategic Plan Paper

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For this assignment, you will research and preparea community-level strategic plan that addresses akey public health issue.

Potential topics may include:

• Using prenatal and infancy home visits toprevent child abuse and neglect

• Preventing falls in the elderly

• Reducing population salt intake

• Reducing tobacco use among adults

• Preventing risky sexual behavior amongyouth and young adults

• Reducing drug experimentation among young adults

Include the following in your paper:

  • Introduction:
    • Provide an overview of the communityhealth issue as described in Part Awith identified causes and influences,including knowledge gaps.
    • Detail the prevalence of the issueinside and outside the United States.
    • Describe potential monetary costsassociated with the issue in the United States.
    • You must include data as part of your introduction (images, charts, graphs, etc., may be included as well as written data).
  • Describe advance practice roles andmanagement strategies that affect change atthe community level.
  • Identify key community and social resourcesthat negatively and positivelyaffect theselected issue.
  • Identify changes or enhancements in community-related services for your selected topic.
  • Develop a strategic plan that could decreasethe prevalence of your selected topic.Thegoals for this plan needs to be specific,measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound. Include how your plan takes into consideration health literacy, socioeconomic factors, and cultural differences.
  • Conclusion:
    • A summary of the goals and challenges
    • An assessment of the outlook for action/progress
  • Appendix A: Include your community assessment from Week 3 as Appendix A.

Your paper should be 3–5 pages in length (notincluding the cover or reference pages). Use APA throughout.

Include 2–3 scholarly sources that are carefullyselected and appropriate to the topic. Referencesshould be current—no more than four years old.

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Running Head: REDUCING DRUG EXPERIMENTATION AMONG YOUTHS

Reducing Drug Experimentation among Youths
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REDUCING DRUGS EXPERIMENTATION AMONG YOUTHS
The use of drugs to get high is on the rise and poses a very serious problem among youths
in the United States and all over the world. According to the latest statistics by the Center for
Disease Control (CDC), more than 47, 000 Americans died in 2017 because of use drugs.
Between 2014 and 2017, the numbers of deaths that can be attributed to opioids such as fentanyl
and its constituents have risen to more than 413%, and the synthetic opioids are now causing
many deaths than many drugs such as heroin, cocaine or opioids (Painter, 2017). The usage of
opioids, methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and opioids painkillers that have been prescribed
have increased among the youths since 2019, which has resulted to increase in drug-related
deaths (Galvani, 2015). The estimated cost of drug abuse among young adults in the U.S., which
include alcohol, illegal drugs, and tobacco, is more than 820 billion dollars annually. The
substance abuse in the United States has increased the cost of healthcare, crime and also loss of
productivity. Therefore, this paper aims to prepare a community-based strategic plan to reduce
drug experimentation among youths in order to mitigate the adverse costs associated with drug
usage.
The strategic plan for reducing drug usage
Statistics indicate that drug experimentation prevention strategies go along in reducing
the usage of cocaine, tob...


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