CSAP's Prevention Pathways

Rating social events by the amount of alcohol served
Eating only at restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages (and wanting to know in advance whether they do)
Smoking
Having minor traffic accidents (police do not typically suspect older adults of alcohol abuse and may not subject them to Breathalyzer^® and other tests for sobriety)
Drinking before going to a social event to “get started,” gulping drinks, guarding the supply of alcoholic beverages, or insisting on mixing own drinks
Leaving empty liquor, wine, or beer bottles or cans in the garbage or concealed under the bed, in the closet, or in other locations

Excessively worrying about whether prescription psychoactive drugs are "really working" to alleviate numerous physical complaints; complaints that the drug prescribed has lost its effectiveness over time (evidence of tolerance)
Displaying detailed knowledge about a specific psychoactive drug and attaching great significance to its efficacy and personal impact
Worrying about having enough pills or whether it is time to take them to the extent that other activities revolve around the dosage schedule
Continuing to use and to request refills when the physical or psychological condition for which the drug was originally prescribed has or should have improved (e.g., prescription of sleeping pills after the death of a loved one); resisting cessation or decreasing doses of a prescribed psychoactive drug
Complaining about doctors who refuse to write prescriptions for preferred drugs, who taper dosages, or who don't take symptoms seriously
Self-medicating by increasing doses of prescribed psychoactive drugs that aren't "helping anymore" or supplementing prescribed drugs with over-the-counter medications of a similar type