Abuse of strong drinks is one of the leading problems of the population maladjustment in the European North of Russia. A combination of measures of resistance to spreading of alcohol and other psychoactive substances' (PAS) use among young people should be based on peculiarities of a concrete situation typical for a given locality.

The goal of our program is to develop and introduce new forms of preventive work with active inclusion of all participants of an educational process and increased interdepartmental interactions at district/city levels. At the heart of preventive measures, there is a principle of positive approach with separation of protective factors - conditions preventing from PAS abuse.

Scientific novelty of the program:

1. - interdepartmental approach in the sphere of addictological preventology

2. - joint realization of the program by specialists and parents

3. - active interaction of the administration, parents and schoolchildren with the increased role of children

4. - implementation of monitoring of the addictological situation and sale of tobacco and alcohol-containing production

5. - development of a through elective program for all subjects.

6. Realization of the program is based on its further self-development allowing:

7. - to change attitudes to health values and the problem of PAS use;

8. - to reach real interdepartmental interaction in realization of anti-alcohol, anti-drug and anti-tobacco initiatives;

9. - to involve young people into sociological and hygienic studies;

10. - to get schoolchildren to take part in volunteer activity by means of interdisciplinary approaches;

11. - to promote positive experience of work to other territories.