The State of Rhode Island contracted with the authors to prepare a statewide, comprehensive
substance abuse prevention plan. The literature review revealed a lack of research on statewide
planning for prevention services. To obtain data for Rhode Island's plan, the authors conducted
a family of studies including synthetic estimation, key informant interviews, a telephone survey
of agency directors, program budget analysis, construction of a statistical index for estimating
the optimal geographic allocation of prevention dollars, and a review of General Laws regarding
tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs. Their recommendations include the increased funding and
coordination of prevention services, allocating services according to need rather than popula tion size, greater use of social policy as a prevention tool, and a shift in primary prevention
programming from senior high to lower grades and in program emphasis from information-education to psychosocial programs.
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