This report suggests that there’s more research going on around the Strengthening Families programme:
"The Strengthening Families Program is one of the most promising universal family-based preventive interventions, " said Coatsworth. "Research shows that it delays the onset of substance use, improves parenting practices, increases youths’ resistance to peer pressure and reduces
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links for 2009-12-17.
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Synchronium says: 17 December, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Here’s a worthwhile link:
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/4796771.Worthing_drug_scare_teen_died_of_natural_causes/
Every story on mephedrone recently has included the above girl, and now it seems she died of something else. Somehow, I doubt this article will receive anywhere near as much publication as the initial report on her death.
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Drinkaware’s Youtube videos.
Here are a few videos that Drinkaware have put on their Youtube channel.
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The making of evidence-based practice: The case of Project ALERT.
There appears to be an increasing interest in the way that evidence is being constructed in relation to drug prevention research.
You may remember that Prevention Action had a piece about the Society for Prevention Research’s (SPR) standards, which we covered here.
There was also a paper about how the evaluation of DARE had been conducted which suggested that there were issues about a level
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