Saprp.org
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SAPRP
Description
Substance abuse is one of our nation's most pressing health problems, responsible for half a million preventable deaths annually. The morbidity and mortality from tobacco use, alcohol abuse, and other drugs are staggering, as are the direct and indirect costs to society. These costs include violence, crime, overburdened service systems, reduced productivity, and higher health care costs.
It is the mission of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to improve the health and health care of all Americans. One of its four goals is to reduce the personal, social, and economic harm caused by substance abuse—tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs. To that end, the Substance Abuse Policy Research Program (SAPRP) is a $54 million Foundation initiative that focuses on analyzing and informing public and private policies aimed at reducing the harm caused by alcohol, drugs, tobacco, and multiple-substance use by encouraging experts in public health, law, political science, medicine, sociology, criminal justice, economics, psychology and other behavioral and policy sciences to address issues related to substance abuse.
Projects supported by SAPRP are expected to increase understanding of public and private policy interventions to prevent, treat and reduce the harm caused by the use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs—including the advantages, development, implementation, disadvantages and potential impact of these policies. Results from SAPRP-funded grants can help policy makers, government administrators, judicial systems, the media, advocacy groups, community organizations, and private organizations, such as health maintenance organizations (HMOs), employers, associations, and trade groups.
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