Prevention Action turn their attention to a piece of research we’ve noted before, which looks at the impact of school ethos on young people’s alcohol use.
They say:
Simply going to a “bad” school did not turn children to drink; other individual factors were far more salient, but the significance of the differences between schools was very noticeable.
So, to take the case of
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Substance Abuse Prevention Dollars and Cents: A Cost-Benefit Analysis.
Via the Mentor website I see that the US government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration have published a guide to cost effective substance abuse prevention programs, Substance Abuse Prevention Dollars and Cents: A Cost Benefits Analysis
In the executive summary they say:
If effective prevention programs were implemented nationwide, substance abuse initiation would
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Positive Activities.
“It’s not like if you don’t do sport you’re going to get pregnant, go on drugs and vandalise bus stops!”
So says one 18 year old quoted in new research for the DCSF, Positive Activities; Qualitative Research with Young People. The young person was responding to the following messages which went with the picture reproduced below:
“Either get into
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‘Boredom’ leads teenagers to drink.
ITN news report (once you’re past the short advert) about young people’s drinking based on a Drinkaware survey.
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