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Drug Policy and the Public Good$
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Thomas F. Babor, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Griffith Edwards, Benedikt Fischer, David R. Foxcroft, Keith Humphreys, Isidore S. Obot, Jürgen Rehm, Peter Reuter, Robin Room, Ingeborg Rossow, and John Strang

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780199557127

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199557127.001.0001

Preventing illicit drug use by young people

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(p. 105 ) Chapter 8 Preventing illicit drug use by young people
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Drug Policy and the Public Good
Author(s):

Thomas Babor

Jonathan Caulkins

Griffith Edwards

Benedikt Fischer

David Foxcroft

Keith Humphreys

Isidore Obot

Jürgen Rehm

Peter Reuter

Robin Room

Ingeborg Rossow

John Strang

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199557127.003.008

This chapter focuses on strategies aimed at young people in school, family, and community settings. There has been an improvement in the evidence base over recent years and there is now convincing evidence for family-oriented and classroom management prevention efforts, although this is based on a relatively small number of studies from the USA.

Keywords:   drug use prevention, youth prevention programmes, school-based drug intervention, drug policy

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