Background

Candidates in federal, state, and local elections must hear from their constituents about the importance of solving the illegal drug and underage drinking issues through effective community-based prevention and treatment programs. To help you in this process, Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) has assembled this Election Guide.

The CADCA Election Guide gives you the tools you need to raise and address substance abuse prevention and treatment issues at campaign events at every level of government and in elections around the country. This is a universal guide that can be used for candidates at level of government from the President of the United States to your local city councils. The CADCA Election Guide also provides a strategy to ensure that you communicate two centralized messages at election events across the country.

The messages are: