Interventions: Prevention
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| ANCD
research paper 16 - Drug testing in schools [March 2008] |
| Drug testing in schools: evidence, impacts and alternatives.
202-page PDF [ANCD, Australia] |
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Prevention
Education in America's Schools [2006]
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Findings and Recommendations from a Survey of Educators. 1.75MB PDF
[Join Together, USA]
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Annual
review of Drug Prevention [2006]
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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]
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Anti-Drug
Advertising: Making the Message Matter [2006]
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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]
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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. |
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Random drug testing
of schoolchildren: A shot in the arm or a shot in the foot for drug
prevention? [February 2005]
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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?
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JoesephRowntree Foundation 23 February 2005
ISBN 1 85935 282 0 (FREE PDF)
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Drug testing in
the workplace: The report of the Independent Inquiry into Drug Testing
at Work [June 2004]
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The report of an independent Inquiry examining what role, if any, drug
testing should play in the workplace
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JoesephRowntree Foundation 28 June 2004
ISBN 1 85935 211 1 (FREE PDF)
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Estimating the
Relative Efficiency of Various Forms of Prevention at Different Stages
of a Drug Epidemic [July 2002]
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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
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Making
Sense of Student Drug Testing: Why Educators Are Saying No
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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]
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Annual
review of Drug Prevention
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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]
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Preventing
harm from psychoactive substance use
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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]
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The Benefits and
Costs of Drug Use Prevention
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Clarifying a Cloudy Issue
Research brief RB-6007, 1999 RAND
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