{"id":18128,"date":"2024-10-12T17:32:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T16:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=18128"},"modified":"2024-11-19T21:29:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T20:29:43","slug":"are-teen-just-say-no-campaigns-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2024\/10\/are-teen-just-say-no-campaigns-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"Are teen ‘just say no’ campaigns effective?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UC expert joins WVXU’s Cincinnati Edition roundtable discussion<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Featured photo at top of an officer speaking with children at school. Photo\/SDI Productions\/iStock.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\"headshot<\/span>By\u00a0Tim Tedeschi<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission recently announced a new three-year drug prevention initiative, funded by grants from the state\u2019s opioid settlement fund for prevention, enforcement, treatment and recovery efforts.<\/p>\n

The University of Cincinnati’s LaTrice Montgomery joined WVXU’s Cincinnati Edition to discuss youth drug prevention programs and what research says about the most effective approaches.<\/p>\n

The popular DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program that began in the 1980s originally featured a uniformed officer speaking to kids in a lecture style on how to “just say no” to drugs.<\/p>\n

“As we now know, that lecture style doesn’t always resonate with youth,” said Montgomery, PhD, adjunct associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience in UC’s College of Medicine and a licensed clinical psychologist. “So we\u2019ve learned it needs to be much more interactive and include not only drug resistance skills but social and emotional skills.”<\/p>\n

As research has progressed, Montgomery said DARE is still around but features a different approach that includes the REAL (Refuse, Explain, Avoid and Leave) method.<\/p>\n

Chris Evans, executive director of the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission, told WVXU their team is using a research-based approach to tailor their programs to what will be most effective.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s really designed to encourage young people to make positive life choices and help build up their resilience,” he said. “What this program does is really shine a light again on those strengths of kids and finding a way for them to identify and strengthen what\u2019s going on with them. And we\u2019ve seen the studies have indicated that is a better approach to dealing with kids nowadays in terms of getting them to be educated and to listen and to make positive choices in this space.”<\/p>\n

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UC expert joins WVXU’s Cincinnati Edition roundtable discussion Featured photo at top of an officer speaking with children at school. Photo\/SDI Productions\/iStock. By\u00a0Tim Tedeschi \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0September 30, 2024 The Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission recently announced a new three-year drug prevention initiative, funded by grants from the state\u2019s opioid settlement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,40,19,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-prevention-research","category-usa","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}