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Interventions: Prevention

 
ANCD research paper 16 - Drug testing in schools [March 2008]
Drug testing in schools: evidence, impacts and alternatives. 202-page PDF [ANCD, Australia]
 

Prevention Education in America's Schools [2006]

Findings and Recommendations from a Survey of Educators. 1.75MB PDF [Join Together, USA]

 

Annual review of Drug Prevention [2006]

Presents and grades the evidence in relation to drug prevention in young people across the four tiered model of services.. 60-page PDF [National Colaborating Centre Drug Prevention, UK]

 

Anti-Drug Advertising: Making the Message Matter [2006]

This past week the government issued a report that questioned the effectiveness of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign ... Why might this one study produce a counter-intuitive finding? Perhaps because it attempts to prove something that isn’t provable – that advertising operates in a vacuum to shape our attitudes and behavior [Partnership for a Drug-Free America]

 

Monograph #7 School based drug prevention: A systematic review of the effectiveness of illicit drug use [December 2005]

This Monograph (No. 07) outlines a systematic review of school based drug education. Whilst the Griffith team started with the broad brief of prevention, it became clear that a focus on school based drug education would be most useful, particularly as a systematic review in relation to its impact on illicit drugs had not been previously conducted. The review identified 58 relevant studies, and both a qualitative (narrative) and quantitative (meta-analytic) review was undertaken. Those programs demonstrating most effectiveness were social influence and competency enhancement programs. Less promising and iatrogenic effects were found for affective education and knowledge dissemination. In contrast to previous research on school based drug education, this review found that professionals were less effective than teachers, that multifaceted programs did not demonstrate substantially greater efficacy; and involvement of peers or booster session had minimal impact. Programs with a greater number of sessions were more effective, and interactive programs were associated with greater effectiveness.
 

Random drug testing of schoolchildren: A shot in the arm or a shot in the foot for drug prevention? [February 2005]

The idea of randomly drug-testing UK schoolchildren to see if they have used illegal drugs has received supportive comments recently from both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. But is school-based random drug-testing a development we should welcome in the UK, or is it something we should seek to avoid?

JoesephRowntree Foundation 23 February 2005

ISBN 1 85935 282 0 (FREE PDF)

 

Drug testing in the workplace: The report of the Independent Inquiry into Drug Testing at Work [June 2004]

The report of an independent Inquiry examining what role, if any, drug testing should play in the workplace

JoesephRowntree Foundation 28 June 2004

ISBN 1 85935 211 1 (FREE PDF)

 

Estimating the Relative Efficiency of Various Forms of Prevention at Different Stages of a Drug Epidemic [July 2002]

Drug use and problems change dramatically over time in ways that are often described as reflecting an epidemic cycle. We use simulation of a model of drug epidemics to investigate how the relative effectiveness of different types of prevention varies over the course of such an epidemic.

Doris A. Behrens, Jonathan P. Caulkins, GernotTragler, Doris Winkler

Carnegie Mellon, Heinz School 2002-9, Jul 2002

 

Making Sense of Student Drug Testing: Why Educators Are Saying No

The authors of this booklet, the Drug Policy Alliance and the American Civil Liberties Union, have analyzed, researched and litigated issues related to student drug testing for many years. We have listened to the experts – from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Public Health Association to hundreds of concerned educators, parents and students across the country. The experts agree, and the evidence is clear: random drug testing does not effectively reduce drug use among young people 36-page PDF [drugtestingfails.org]

 

Annual review of Drug Prevention

Presents and grades the evidence in relation to drug prevention in young people across the four tiered model of services.. 60-page PDF [National Colaborating Centre Drug Prevention, UK]

 

Preventing harm from psychoactive substance use

Recommendations fall under five key prevention priorities: reducing risk factors and increasing protective factors across the life course, community centred prevention, addressing impacts on communities, legislative and public policy change and regulated markets. 98-page PDF [City of Vancouver Drug Policy Program, Canada]

 

The Benefits and Costs of Drug Use Prevention

Clarifying a Cloudy Issue

Research brief RB-6007, 1999 RAND

 

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