Community based addiction prevention challenges and strategies

Substance use problem is one of the social problems with national agreement for war against it. In this paper, some threats and weaknesses of the community based drug prevention in neighbourhood are reviewed. Describing the community characteristics and it`s role in drug problem prevention is pointed at first and continuing by introducing 4 categories of threats and weaknesses of community based problems those include: governmental aspects, grassroot–neighbourhood-community aspect, management aspects and drug prevention programmes details. Other details such as; process, stability of programme, management strategies in CBO`s, resource management and budgeting, community based organizing, facilitator`s skills, evaluation and monitoring, megapolicies and the meaning of volunteering are other aspects that are seen. Management and tailoring for each community, empowerment and participation facilities are some concepts that are seen. Finally, there are some offers for passing these challenges.This paper focuses on categorizing of challenges and the list that is presented here is not complete.