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Each year the Foundation and our grantees produce materials that reflect our philanthropic investments. Below is a sampling—books, book chapters, journal articles, reports, audiovisuals and newsletters—produced in 2004. Copies may not be available through the Foundation.

Appel P, Ellison A, et al. “Barriers to Enrollment in Drug Abuse Treatment and Suggestions for Reducing Them: Opinions of Drug Injecting Street Outreach Clients and Other Stakeholders.” American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 30(1): 129–153, 2004. Available at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00952990.asp .

Alcohol and other drug abuse (AOD) treatment is a major means of HIV/AIDS prevention, yet clients of street outreach programs who are injection drug users, and outreach workers and staff, report various obstacles to enrolling clients in AOD programs. This study assessed the barriers to AOD enrollment facing high-risk street outreach clients and provides suggestions for reducing them.

Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth. Alcohol Advertising on Television, 2001 to 2003: More of the Same. Washington: Georgetown University, 2004. Available at: http://camy.org/research.

This study finds that alcohol industry advertising on television maintained a steady growth path between 2001 and 2003.

Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth. Clicking with Kids: Alcohol Marketing and Youth on the Internet. Washington: Georgetown University, 2004. Available at: http://camy.org/research.

This report finds that young people under the drinking age were responsible for nearly 700,000 in-depth visits to alcohol company Web sites in the last six months of 2003 alone, despite alcohol industry marketing codes promising to limit access to only legal-age adults.

Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth. Sex Differences in Adolescent Exposure to Alcohol Advertising in Magazines. Washington: Georgetown University, 2004. Available at: http://camy.org/research.

This study finds that underage youth saw more alcohol advertising in magazines in 2002 than adults, on a per capita basis, and that girls were even more overexposed to such advertising than boys. These findings come at a time when public health surveys have found for the first time that teenage girls are drinking more than teenage boys.

Choose or Lose: 20 Million Loud Celebrity Issue on “Drug Wars,” a 22–minute DVD. New York: Music Television Network, 2004.

MTV’s news correspondent Sway meets with experts on drug control and the justice system, and talks about what drug and justice policies mean for the health of young adults addicted to drugs.

Hart P and Teeter R. Faces and Voices of Recovery Public Survey. Washington: Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Inc., 2004. Available at: http://facesandvoicesofrecovery.org/pdf/2004_hart_survey_analysis.pdf.

This bipartisan team conducted the first-ever comprehensive public survey on stigma, discrimination and other barriers to recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs.

Levy S, VanHook S, et al. “A Review of Internet-Based Home Drug Testing Products for Parents.” Pediatrics, 113(4): 720–726, 2004. Available at: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/113/4/720.

This study reviewed Internet-based home drug testing products and recommendations intended for parents. A variety of drug-testing products were available, including breath and saliva tests for alcohol, a multidrug panel hair test, and a variety of laboratory and instant urine tests.

Tremper C and Mosher JF. Assessing State Readiness to Act on Alcohol Tax Research Findings. Greensboro: Substance Abuse Policy Research Program, 2004.

Research has played a key role in raising the minimum legal drinking age and reducing limits of blood alcohol concentrations for drivers. Research has also shown that an increase in alcohol taxes can reduce consumption and reduce negative consequences, especially among youth and those with the least disposable income. This report examines public health benefits and state-level conditions that might affect alcohol tax policies.

Weitzman E, Nelson T, et al. “Reducing Drinking and Related Harms in College: Evaluation of the A Matter of Degree Program.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 27(3): 187–196, 2004.

This Harvard School of Public Health evaluation of a 10-campus effort to reduce high-risk alcohol consumption found reductions in drinking rates and alcohol-related harms at colleges that most fully implemented the program model.

Wielawski I. “The Fighting Back Program.” In To Improve Health and Health Care, Vol. VII, Isaacs S and Knickman J (eds.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. Available at: www.rwjf.org/ files/publications/books/2004/chapter_01.html.

The author recounts the story of Fighting Back®, and provides a case study of tension and difficulties in mounting, implementing and evaluating complex community-based initiatives to reduce drug and alcohol use.