A multicommunity trial for primary prevention of adolescent drug abuse: effects on drug use prevalence

Article Abstract:

A report is presented on a comprehensive, ongoing 6-year community-based program which reaches all 50 schools located in the 15 communities that constitute Kansas City and which is aimed at reducing adolescent usage of tobacco, alcohol and marijuana. The program has used school-based instructional units, community organizations and the media in developing the anti-drug program. The prior and continuing use of these substances by the children of the community is statistically studied and the results analyzed. Based on the results after two years of the program at 42 schools, the intervention has yielded use rates for the three drugs that are significantly less than those for control groups. Prevalence rates for the drugs were found to have dropped as follows at a 1-year follow-up: from 24 percent to 17 percent for cigarette use, from 16 percent to 11 percent for alcohol use, and from 10 percent to 7 percent for marijuana use. These data do not include any adjustment for race, school grade, urbanicity or socioeconomic status. There are strong public health implications raised by these results with regard to the role of shifting the social normative climate in youthful populations toward non-drug use.

Teenagers, Youth, Drug use

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Long-term follow-up results of a randomized drug abuse prevention trial in a white middle-class population

Article Abstract:

Properly structured drug abuse prevention programs involving follow-up sessions and aimed at junior high school children appear to be an effective means of reducing drug use. Sixty percent of a group of students who participated in a drug abuse prevention program starting in seventh grade were surveyed for drug use as high school seniors. The prevention program involved 15 classes at the seventh grade level, followed by a series of refresher courses in eighth and ninth grades. These results were compared to surveys of high school seniors from the same area who did not participate in the prevention program in seventh grade. Drug use was around 44% less prevalent in the group that participated in the prevention program, and combined use of substances such as tobacco, marijuana and alcohol was 66% less prevalent in the prevention group.

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Etiology of Alcohol Use Among Hispanic Adolescents: Sex-Specific Effects of Social Influences to Drink and Problem Behaviors

Article Abstract:

Hispanic teenagers need to be taught how to resist social pressures to drink. In a survey of 1,410 Hispanic teenagers who drank or used drugs, most said that social pressures caused them to abuse alcohol and drugs. Friends in particular had a strong influence, but drinking by family members was also a risk factor. Social pressures were common in both men and women who drank or used drugs.

Risk factors, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Drinking (Alcoholic beverages), Alcohol use, Hispanic American youth, Hispanic American teenagers

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