Drug and Alcohol Findings home page in a new window EFFECTIVENESS BANK ABSTRACT BULLETIN 10 June 2011

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Prevention and early intervention from school to college to work

In this new bag of studies are mixed but always instructive results from substance use prevention and early intervention attempts across the life stages from school to college and work. The negative school studies raise questions about relying on developer-led evaluations and about whether promising programmes really will work in the real world. Can colleges get away with sitting new students in front of a computer to learn how to drink safely, and will brief alcohol counselling really leave companies more than a thousand dollars better off? It takes more ' a new family ' to help the most severely problematic Norwegian teenagers.

Leading US school-based prevention programme fails independent test ...

No success for school counselling/education for troubled US teens ...

US college uses internet to start new students drinking more safely...

Prison alternative turns round lives of child substance users with multiple problems ...

Productivity savings for US firms which counsel risky drinking staff ...