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STUDY 2009 HTM file
Blueprint drugs education: the response of pupils and parents to the programme

In the British context, it was expected to decide whether an evidence-based, well structured and well resourced drug education programme could contribute to reducing youth substance use, yet the multi-million pound Blueprint study never got near fulfilling its promise.

STUDY 2005 PDF file 104Kb
Drug prevention best done by school's own teachers not outside specialists

An evaluation of the US All Stars programme for early secondary school provided a rare opportunity to test whether drug prevention is best done by outside specialists or a school's own teachers; the teachers won out, despite needing less training.

STUDY 2005 PDF file 112Kb
Normative education works in school but often fails to reduce drinking at college

Despite successes with schoolchildren, two recent US studies have shown that 'normative' education correcting overestimations of youth drinking does not reduce drinking at colleges, where heavy drinking is both more common and more valued.

STUDY 2005 PDF file 102Kb
School programme successfully revised to focus more on harm reduction

Rare for an early adolescence school programme to focus on harm reduction, and very rare in the USA. In the face of patchy outcomes, Project ALERT took that route and found the intended improvements in smoking and drinking risk reductions.

STUDY 2009 HTM file
Dismantling motivational interviewing and feedback for college drinkers: a randomized clinical trial

Brief interventions based on motivational interviewing typically incorporate feedback on the individual's risk and use level compared to the norm, but does this really help? A US college study found it did, the combination leading to greater drinking reductions than either on its own.

REVIEW 2009 HTM file
Curbing problem drinking with personalized-feedback interventions: a meta-analysis

Synthesis of randomised trials finds worthwhile reductions in drinking after college students and others are simply very briefly informed how their drinking compares to population norms.

STUDY 2002 PDF file 173Kb
Growth in youth drinking curbed by correcting 'normative' beliefs

A sophisticated reanalysis of data from the US Adolescent Alcohol Prevention Trial confirmed that school lessons based on correcting 'normative beliefs' about how common substance use is among one's peers can retard growth in drinking.

STUDY 2001 PDF file 384Kb
Mailshot triggers reduced drinking among concerned problem drinkers

From Canada, the first study to find that using inexpensive mass communication methods to challenge false beliefs that most other people drink more can cut drinking among heavy drinkers, in this case only those already concerned about the risks.

STUDY 2001 PDF file 281Kb
Computerised feedback challenges belief that most drink more than me

Promising North American alcohol prevention programs exploit the interactivity of CD-ROMs or the internet to provide personalised feedback on (among other things) how the drinking of the the user compares to population norms.

STUDY 2000 PDF file 222Kb
Everyone is NOT doing it - important prevention message for early teens

A US alcohol education study distinguished by its long-term follow-up and its harm reduction objective found that school programmes can reduce excessive alcohol use among teenagers by correcting unrealistic beliefs about how normal drinking is.


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