Municipal Alliance for the Prevention
of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

The Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse was created to coordinate New Jersey's efforts in regard to the planning and provision of treatment, prevention, research, evaluation, and education services for, and public awareness of, alcoholism and drug abuse. The Middletown Municipal Alliance for Prevention of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse was created in 1990 in response to the Governor's Council.

The Alliance office is based at Crossroads at Croydon Hall, the township’s substance abuse services center. Funding for Municipal Alliance programs comes from the Drug Enforcement Demand Reduction fund. These are fines levied on convicted drug users and sellers. By way of annual application to the Monmouth County Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services, Middletown receives in excess of $25,000 of these funds for township substance abuse early intervention and prevention education programs.

Programs facilitated by the Alliance include:

• Project P.L.U.S. a fifth grade peer leadership program to help students ready themselves for the middle school transition and situations they may encounter.
  
  
• K.I.D.S. - Kids Instructed on Dangerous Substances - provides substance abuse prevention education to youth from ages 5 through 15
  
  
• G.L.A.D. - Grownups Learning About Drugs - provides adults substance abuse prevention education and early intervention lessons.
  
  
• Early Identification, Intervention and Referral Services are provided with complete confidentiality and at no charge to township residents.
  
  
• Reaching Out to Prevent Substance Abuse program provides an open forum for the public and professional communities to network with regard to the health, legal, and personal consequences of substance abuse.