Excerpt from A Toolkit for Hispanic-Latino Community Groups: Organizing Hispanic-Latino Communities for the Prevention of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illicit Drug Use Why does this guidebook focus on the Hispanic! Latino community? Many parents, families, young people, and community organizations throughout the United States are taking steps to prevent alcohol and drug abuse in their communities. These people and organizations are building strong local movements aimed at preventing and decreasing substance use and abuse. And these efforts are making a difference. In fact, recent studies on the use of alcohol and drugs by young people in the United States show a decrease in use overall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.