One way is by parents helping parents. What I mean by this is parents communicating with each other about alcohol and other social events. Parents should also make sure that the child's school has a comprehensive substance abuse prevention and intervention plan. Along with parents and schools, the community should be involved too. Media, local business leaders health professionals, churches and youth groups should all be involved in the fight against alcohol abuse in the community.
Organised communities can influence and change everything-attitudes, practices, laws and behaviours.
Alcohol abuse is not an isolated problem. Crime, school failure, teenage pregnancy, depression and suicide are others associated with the use of alcohol. The alcohol problem we face as a society will be solved only through social change. The process involves creating a world in which adolescence don't need to escape. This would be the ultimate prevention.