National Drug Prevention Alliance & PPP

Research - Prevention

Drug Legalisation: An Evaluation of the Impacts on Global Society
Cannabis – a cause for Concern ?
A Drug Policy for the 21st Century
Plain packaging removes cigarettes’ appeal
Drug Courts Can Reduce Substance Use and Crime, Five-Year Study Shows, But Effectiveness Hinges on the Judge
Long-term effects of a parent and student intervention on alcohol use in adolescents: a cluster randomized controlled trial.
Tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceutical industries must love this campaign
Review Finds Some School-Based Programs Curb Alcohol Misuse
Tool May Allow Doctors to Assess Meth Impact on Babies Exposed Before Birth
School-based prevention for illicit drugs’ use
New Study Shows Efficacy of Mandatory Random Student Drug Testing
Combining in-school and community-based media efforts: reducing marijuana and alcohol uptake among younger adolescents
Would Legalizing Marijuana in California Help?
School-Based Prevention Cuts Drug Use, Violence, NIDA Says
News media turns young people off illicit drugs
Underage drinking
The role of parents in preventing alcohol misuse
Teens Who Drink With Parents May Still Develop Alcohol Problems
Adolescent Brains Not Ready to Avoid Risks, Study Says
Research Triangle International – A Prevention Science Approach
‘Truth’ Campaign Can Save Half a Million Lives, Billions of Dollars
School-Based Drug Abuse Prevention Program Also Works Against Violence and Delinquency
Dinner with family helps prevent drug use
Family Dinners and Teen Substance Use
Raise Alcohol Taxes to lower use.
Twiggs County (USA) schools net grant for drug, gang prevention
Report to UN Conference Says Drug Prevention Programs Return $10 Per Dollar Invested
Teens who frequently go out with friends more likely to use marijuana
The occurrence of cannabis use disorders and other cannabis-related problems among young adults attending college
Alcohol-Branded Apparel Linked to Adolescent Drinking
Predictive factors for illicit drug use among young people
Exposure to Substance Use Prevention Messages and Substance Use among Adolescents: 2002 to 2007
Prevention Program Helps Teens Override A Gene Linked To Risky Behavior
Middle School Interventions Reduce Nonmedical Use of Prescription Drugs
Drivers Ages 21 to 34 Disproportionately Involved in Drunk-Driving Fatal Crashes
NIDA Study Shows School-Based Prevention Program Reduces Problem Behaviors in Fifth Graders By Half
Pictures of Puffing Stars Encourages Teen Smoking
Non Smoking Bar increases profits.
Marketing Linked to College Binge Drinking
Parent Resources to Prevent Summertime Teen Marijuana Use
More Teens See Marijuana Risks
Personality Traits May Predict Drug Abuse Risk
Researchers See Stronger Genetic Links to Addiction
“Party School” to Require Alcohol-Misuse Course
Study Says More Alcohol Ads Reaching Minors
Successful Ad Campaign reduces youth tobacco use
Residential Treatment Improves Parental Behaviour
Study Compares Prison and Non-Prison Treatment
Amnesty Bins At Dance Venues May Help Tackle Drug Use
Right Ads Can Help Prevent Drug Use
Unsupervised Teens Do Poorly In School
The Arts and Substance Abuse Prevention
Drug Courts Work
Legalizing of drugs backfires
Dutch Plan To Curb Drug Tourism
Federal Law Would Interfere with Effective Student Drug Testing Policy, Georgia Schools Say
Hollywood fails to show bad side of sex, drugs
Reefer Madness in SF
Teachers can teach while nurses do prevention
Philip Morris Accused of Subverting Prevention
Smoking Falls After NYC Ban
Decline in Teen Smoking Falters as States Spend Less on Prevention
Success for Georgia’s Drug Courts, Officials Say
Assessing the Impact of Antidrug Advertising on Adolescent Drug Consumption: Results From a Behavioral Economic Model
Can Just One Cigarette Hook Teens?
New Genetic Study May Provide New Tools for Alcohol Prevention and Treatment
Scots smoking ban achieves almost 100% compliance
Family Advocacy Network (FAN)
Dare To Be You
Child Development Project (CDP)
Across Ages
Culturally Relevant Smoking Prevention for Minority Youth
Harm Reduction in the Netherlands
Parliamentary Inquiry into alcohol and drugs: Survey of psychoactive substance use and gambling among members of the Dutch Parliament
Drug Abuse Prevention for At-Risk Individuals
Types of Indicated Prevention Programs
Prevention programmes for parents: Research findings – classic early studies
Tips for prevention programming
Prevention Works!
Preventive education for adolescents or children
Young drinkers want to be shocked
Shortened Family Prevention Programs yield long-lasting Reductions in Adolescent Drug Abuse
Prevention Works
Drug Courts Pay Off
HCV & HIV Common in Young Canadian Drug Users
Adolescent Treatment Admissions Increase in 2002
Gilead AIDS Drugs Show Prevention Promise
Drug Traffiking Disruption Yields Monetary Benefits
Creating Lasting Connections (CLC)
Implementation issues and society’s perception of risk and consequences
What is prevention ?
Marijuana as a Gateway Drug
Drug prevention outside and inside prison walls
Prevention & Education
Drug use and delinquent behavior among high risk youths
Persuasive communication in the mass media:
A Solution to Pro-Drug Messages on Information Superhighway – Media is Major Risk Factor for Youth Today
Seattle Social Development Project
Strengthening Families Program
Adolescent Alcohol – Prevention Trial (AAPT)
Study Confirms Drug Prevention Works
Long Term Impact Of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E): Results Of 6 Yr .Follow Up.
Effects of a Community-Based Prevention Programme on Decreasing Drug Use in High-Risk Adolescents
University students’ reasons for NOT drinking: Relationship to alcohol consumption level
Mentoring for prevention; a valuable partner in the process
Results Mapping: New Ways for Evaluating Prevention Programs for At-Risk
Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Treatment
Alcohol and Drug Deaths in Scotland