NCJ Number
149415
Date Published
1994
Length
64 pages
Annotation
This report is designed to inform Kansas citizens and policymakers about the drug programs of Kansas' State agencies and how their resources are being invested to eliminate drug use in the State.
Abstract
This report summarizes State agency alcohol and other drug abuse programs, actual expenditures in fiscal year 1993, and recommended expenditures for fiscal year 1994. Also, each agency describes what "risk factors" it addressed in fiscal year 1993 and what "risk factors" it will address in fiscal year 1994. The Governor's Interagency Coordinating Committee on Substance Abuse members have been using the "Risk and Protective Factors" model for 2 years, and in October 1993 the committee formally adopted the model in promoting a comprehensive and coordinated approach to problems associated with the abuse of alcohol and other drugs. Toward this end, each agency is using this theoretical model to plan its contributions to drug prevention, treatment, and enforcement services. The model identifies 16 risk factors, including economic and social deprivation, low neighborhood attachment and community disorganization, transitions and mobility, community laws and norms favorable toward drug use, and the availability of drugs. One appendix contains a chart that displays those agencies that invest moneys in the continuum. Another appendix demonstrates the statewide risk factors, and a third appendix summarizes Kansas' statutes on alcohol and other drug abuse.