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Scientific article
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English

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Country
United States
Keywords
Prevention
teenage drug use
peer groups
reduction

Can Drug Prevention Programmes Reduce Substance Use by Participants’ Friends?

Drug Prevention ProgrammesA research study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health(link is external) offers two key findings:

The findings suggest that encouraging participants to advocate cautionary attitudes to substance use amongst their peers may help reduce young person and adolescence substance use throughout the community.

The authors of the study also claim that identifying the factors that support a programme’s diffusion can enable practitioners to improve their intervention design and implementation.

Click here to read more on the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) website.(link is external)