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Residential Student Assistance Program

 
 

The Residential Student Assistance Program in Westchester County, NY, was based on employee and student assistance programs, but designed for adolescents housed in various types of institutions and facilities. Professional student assistance counselors (SACs) were assigned to county correctional facilities, […]

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Measuring excessive alcohol use in college drinking contexts: The drinking context scale

 
 

Research on youthful drinking has shown that the greatest risks associated with alcohol abuse are related to contextual factors that may potentiate heavy drinking as well as increase risks for adverse consequences. These contextual factors include interacting psychological, interpersonal, and […]

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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents

 
 

By Timothy Wilens, M.D.
 
The overlap between attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder and alcohol or drug abuse or dependence (referred to here as substance use disorders [SUDs]) in adolescents has been an area of increasing clinical, research and public health interest. Appearing in […]

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The Smoking Drinking/Drug Connection

 
 

The survey also demonstrated that teens who use one substance are far more likely to use another. The powerful correlations among teens who smoke, drink and use marijuana and expect to use an illegal drug in the future make it […]

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University students’ reasons for NOT drinking: Relationship to alcohol consumption level

 
 

The present study investigated the reasons university students have for not drinking on those occasions when they choose not to drink and whether those reasons differ with students’ differing levels of alcohol consumption. Volunteer participants for the study were students […]

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Test of socioeconomic status as a predictor of initial marijuana use

 

The current study examined the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) on adolescent marijuana use using data from a national longitudinal survey of subjects aged 11 to 17 (N = 1,725). Both direct and indirect measures of SES (e.g., Hollingshead’s measure […]

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Implications – Smoking

 

Because adolescent smoking can predispose teen-agers to later illegal drug use, social policies which reduce tobacco use by teens may provide one of the most effective ways to reduce future illegal drug use. Any nation that seeks to prevent marijuana, […]

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Why do young people smoke?

 
 

There are a number of complex and inter-relating factors that predispose young people to smoke, and these vary among individuals and among populations. However, years of research have identified certain factors that commonly play a role in smoking initiation. These […]

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At the Cinema – Smoking in cinemas increasing, in contrast to real smoking rates

 
 

The incidence of smoking in top grossing movies has increased during the 1990s, and dramatically exceeds real smoking rates, according to a new University of California San Francisco study. After declining over three decades, smoking in movies has returned to […]

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Tobacco companies supply film-makers products (‘Product Placement’)

 
 

The cigar that juts from the mouth of Orson Welles as he eyes Kermit the frog in The Muppet Movie, a children’s film, may have been a gift from Philip Morris. Newly released internal company documents show that the company […]

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Effects of a Community-Based Prevention Programme on Decreasing Drug Use in High-Risk Adolescents

 
 

IntroductionSeveral reviews of the substance abuse prevention literature have concluded that social-influence-based prevention programmes can significantly delay the onset of tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use and slow the rate of increase in substance use prevalence among entire populations of […]

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Gateway Theory

 
 

This edition of Prevention Works lists some studies, which look at the gateway/addiction theory of progressive drug misuse. The implications for prevention are clear – Early use of nicotine, alcohol and marijuana is a predictor of later use of cocaine […]

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Does D.A.R.E. Make A Difference In Students’ Attitudes & Behaviour In The Use Of Alcohol And Drugs?

 

3,150 11th grade students participated in the survey; some had participated in the D.A.R.E. programme at elementary, junior and senior high school levels. 11th grade students were selected as the study population because they were old enough to have been […]

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Long Term Impact Of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E): Results Of 6 Yr . Follow Up.

 
 

The long term effectiveness of DARE was assessed by contrasting drug use and other DARE related attitudinal variables among 356 12th grade students who received the program in 6th grade with 264 others who did not receive it. There was […]

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Study Confirms Drug Prevention Works

 
 

The follow-up results of a six-year study by the Institute for Prevention Research at Cornell University Medical College provide important new evidence that drug abuse prevention programs conducted in school classrooms work. In a large-scale study involving nearly 6,000 students […]

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Adolescent Alcohol – Prevention Trial (AAPT)

 

AAPT is a universal classroom program designed for fifth grade students, with booster sessions conducted in the seventh grade. It includes two primary strategies. Resistance skills training is designed to give children the social and behavioral skills they need to […]

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Seattle Social Development Project

 
 

A universal program, the Seattle project is a school-based intervention for grades one through six that seeks to reduce shared childhood risks for delinquency and drug abuse by enhancing protective factors. The multicomponent intervention trains elementary school teachers to use […]

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A Solution to Pro-Drug Messages on Information Superhighway – Media is Major Risk Factor for Youth Today

 
 

In a workshop at the August 1997 10th Annual National Prevention Network (NPN) Research Conference, in Philadelphia, Nancy Chase and Fred Garcia defined the kinds of media reaching today’s youth. These include such obvious sources as television and movies and […]

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Results Mapping: New Ways for Evaluating Prevention Programs for At-Risk

 

 
Youth Results Mapping may forever alter the way that prevention programs are evaluated, according to Barry M. Kibel, Ph.D., a senior research Scientist at Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Chapel Hill, NC, and the principal investigator for CSAP-funded High-Risk […]

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Cannabis dependence, withdrawal, and reinforcing effects

 

Among adolescents with conduct symptoms and substance use disorders
 
Abstract
The prevalence of cannabis use is rising among adolescents, many of whom perceive little risk from cannabis. However, clinicians who treat adolescent substance users hear frequent reports of serious cannabis-use disorders and […]

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Legal Attitudes,Permissive Norm Quantities, and Substance Use

 
 

“Youthful drug use violates both formal law and informal norms for conventional behaviour. Analyses of influences on permissive drug attitudes and behaviours among adolescents should, therefore, focus on both attitude towards the law and the informal normative climate of these […]

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NICO Drink

 
 

Nico, a mineral water drink laced with nicotine is being launched in the US, reports the Daily Express. Increasing restrictions on smoking in the was the inspiration behind the product say its manufacturers. The water has eight milligrams of nicotine […]

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Teenage Survey

 

More teenagers are using cocaine and regularly smoking and drinking, but an increasing number are also wearing seat belts and refusing to ride with a driver who’s been drinking. Those results were released yesterday in a survey conducted by the […]

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Alcohol is the leading drug abused by U.S. teens

 

According to a new study by the National Centre on Addiction and Substance Abuse: Alcohol is the leading drug abused by U.S. teens. Under age drinkers account for 19.7 percent of alcohol consumed in U.S. 78 percent of high school […]

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Cocaine use rises markedly among 16-29 year olds

 

Cocaine use among young adults in Britain is expanding faster than anywhere else in Europe according to a new Drug misuse report. The annual report from the Lisbon based European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, giving figures for […]

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