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STUDY 2010 HTM file
Does successful school-based prevention of bullying influence substance use among 13- to
16-year-olds?
Intriguing suggestion from a Norwegian study that taking measures to effectively reduce bullying in schools (including improving the social climate and setting clear and consistently enforced boundaries) also curbs the development of forms of substance use most associated with disturbed child development.
STUDY 2010 HTM file
Bridging the gap between evidence and practice: a multi-perspective examination of real-world drug education
An audit of school drug education in Scotland in the early 2000s found that in key respects lessons departed from what research had shown was effective prevention and that despite national guidelines, there was no consistent national or even local approach.
REVIEW 2011 HTM file
Universal school-based prevention programs for alcohol misuse in young people
This authoritative review says that school programmes which work best at preventing youth drinking problems are not specifically about alcohol at all, but instead target problem behaviour more generally.
STUDY 2010 HTM file
The effects of Project ALERT one year past curriculum completion
This real-world test of a prevention programme conducted by an independent researcher rather than the developer failed to replicate earlier positive results – in this case, in respect of Project ALERT, one of the two most widely implemented and respected US middle school drug prevention curricula.
STUDY 2010 HTM file
Project SUCCESS' effects on the substance use of alternative high school students
In what is becoming a pattern, this rigorous, real-world test of a prevention programme conducted by an independent researcher rather than the developer failed to replicate earlier positive results – in this case, in respect of an education/counselling programme for US teenagers diverted from mainstream schooling.
STUDY 2003 HTM file
Substances, adolescence (meta-analysis)
The most influential finding in drug education research – that interactive teaching methods have the greatest prevention impact – was confirmed by the featured report but later questioned by unpublished analyses using better statistical methods, an episode which has left concern and uncertainty in its wake.
STUDY 2010 HTM file
Why target early adolescents and parents in alcohol prevention? The mediating effects of self-control, rules and attitudes about alcohol use
In the Netherlands, allied with alcohol prevention lessons, addressing parental attitudes to and rule-setting about drinking by their adolescent children at routine parent meetings at the start of each school year led via these and other mechanisms to fewer pupils starting to drink regularly.
STUDY 2011 HTM file
Effects of a school-based prevention program on European adolescents' patterns of alcohol use
The largest European drug education trial ever conducted tested whether US-style social influence programmes would prove effective in Europe. Among the successes were the reductions in problem drinking documented in this report.
STUDY 2010 HTM file
The effectiveness of a school-based substance abuse prevention program: 18-month follow-up of the EU-Dap cluster randomized controlled trial
The largest European drug education trial ever conducted tested whether US-style social influence programmes would prove effective in Europe. There were probably some real successes, but these were limited and may have been artefacts of the implementation and analysis of the study.
REVIEW 2010 HTM file
A meta-analytic review of school-based prevention for cannabis use
Taking in studies up to the end of 2007, this synthesis of research concludes that secondary school cannabis prevention lessons are most effective when delivered by outside experts who teach in an interactive manner and deliver comprehensive content which goes beyond resisting peer and other social influences.
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