October 7, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute
Lessons from the Field: Profiling State Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drug Problems is a guide developed by the non-profit group Drug Strategies and financed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help states evaluate trends in illicit-drug and alcohol use. The “field” of the title refers to eight states — Arizona, California, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, and South Carolina — that were examined from 1995 to 1999. The guide does not reveal what results Drug Strategies found in its state profiles, but rather lays out its methods for assembling such reports. A lengthy list of government and non-profit organizations that gather data on drugs, including contact information, gives readers a place to start their research. Publisher: Drug Strategies, 1575 I Street, N.W., Suite 210, Washington 20005; (202) 289-9070; fax (202) 414-6199; dspolicy@aol.com; http://www.drugstrategies.org; 36 pages; free.
