Child Policy Publications: Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco
2012
Establishing and Evaluating the Key Functions of an Interactive Systems Framework Using an Assets-Getting to Outcomes Intervention — 2012
Community practitioners can face difficulty in achieving outcomes demonstrated by prevention science.
Preventing Alcohol Use with a Voluntary After-School Program for Middle School Students: Results from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of CHOICE — 2012
A voluntary after-school program focused specifically on alcohol and drug use may be effective in deterring alcohol use among early adolescents.
Scheduling of Newly Emerging Drugs: A Critical Review of Decisions Over 40 Years — 2012
This study seeks to assess more comprehensively the results of decisions on whether and how to 'schedule' (i.e. to determine their legal status and penalties to be applied for sale or possession) newly emerging drugs.
Social Distance and Homophily in Adolescent Smoking Initiation — 2012
The association between peer smoking and adolescent smoking initiation appears to be due to both peer selection and direct influence.
Targeting Anti-Smoking Messages: Does Audience Race Matter? — 2012
This study examined whether an adolescent's self-identified race moderates the perceived effectiveness of anti-smoking messages.
2011
The Effectiveness of Community-Based Delivery of an Evidence-Based Treatment for Adolescent Substance Use — 2011
This study evaluates the effectiveness of motivational enhancement therapy/cognitive behavioral therapy–5 (MET/CBT-5) when delivered in community practice settings relative to standard community-based adolescent treatment.
The Influence of Mental Disorders on School Dropout in Mexico — 2011
Studies the impact of mental disorders on failure in educational attainment in Mexico.
Intergenerational Relationships Between the Smoking Patterns of a Population-Representative Sample of US Mothers and the Smoking Trajectories of Their Children — 2012
The authors assessed intergenerational transmission of smoking in mother-child dyads.
Motives for Smoking in Movies Affect Future Smoking Risk in Middle School Students: An Experimental Investigation — 2011
Exposure to movies that portray motivations for smoking places adolescents at particular risk for future smoking.
Multisite Cost Analysis of a School-Based Voluntary Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program — 2011
The large cross-school variation in the cost of implementing Project CHOICE (a voluntary after-school prevention program for adolescents) highlights the importance of collecting cost information from multiple sites.
Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research: Is There No Place Like Home? — 2011
Latent class analysis. A new approach to studying the role of place in population health, can be used in both research and practice.
Resisting Smoking When a Best Friend Smokes: Do Intrapersonal and Contextual Factors Matter? — 2012
The strong link between having a best friend who smoked and increased adolescent smoking isn't affected by individual factors such as self-esteem, depressing and access to cigarettes.
Social Networks of Homeless Youth in Emerging Adulthood — 2011
Interventions need to recognize the importance of social networks of homeless youth in emerging adulthood by enhancing supportive bonds and reducing substance use and risky sex.
Using a Cross-Study Design to Assess the Efficacy of Motivational Enhancement Therapy-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 5 (MET/CBT5) in Treating Adolescents with Cannabis-Related Disorders — 2011
Youth with marijuana problems who received a research-based treatment (motivational enhancement therapy plus cognitive behavioral therapy [MET/CBT5]) had better outcomes than similar youth treated in community-based programs.
2010
Association Between Adolescent Viewership and Alcohol Advertising on Cable Television — 2010
This study found that cable TV ad placements on for beer, spirits, and alcopops increased as adolescent viewership rose from 0% to 30%, especially for female viewers.
Associations Between Abstinence in Adolescence and Economic and Educational Outcomes Seven Years Later Among High-Risk Youth — 2010
This study found that abstinence from all substance use for 12 months among a sample of 13-17 year olds was associated with positive long-term educational and economic outcomes relative to use of any substance.
Developing a Group Motivational Interviewing Intervention for First-Time Adolescent Offenders At-Risk for an Alcohol or Drug Use Disorder — 2010
This study found that using group MI can be an acceptable approach for youth at risk for alcohol or other drug offenses.
Friendship Networks and Trajectories of Adolescent Tobacco Use — 2010
This article examines how friendship networks in adolescence are linked to tobacco use trajectories through a combination of analytic techniques that traditionally are located in separate literatures: social network analysis and developmental trajectory analysis.
Personal Network Correlates of Alcohol, Cigarette, and Marijuana Use Among Homeless Youth — 2010
Youth with more substance users in their networks reported greater alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana consumption. Network-based interventions may be a means to enhance pro-social influences and reduce exposure to substance use for this population.
Predictors of Sexual Behavior Among Early and Middle Adolescents Affected By Maternal HIV — 2010
Sexual behavior among adolescents with HIV-positive mothers was less prevalent than among other adolescents, but was more likely to occur with adolescent alcohol use, lack of parental monitoring, and poorer physical functioning of HIV-positive mothers.
Preventing Drug Use — 2010
This book chapter reviews the literature on the effectiveness of substance use prevention and the effect of substance use on education, employment, and earnings.
Tobacco Industry Manipulation Messages in Anti-Smoking Public Service Announcements: The Effect of Explicitly Versus Implicitly Delivering Messages — 2010
Message content in anti-smoking public service announcements (PSAs) can be delivered explicitly (directly with concrete statements) or implicitly (indirectly via metaphor), and the method of delivery may affect the efficacy of those PSAs. The purpose of this study was to conduct an initial test of this idea using tobacco industry manipulation PSAs in adolescents.
2009
Analysis of Item Response and Differential Item Functioning of Alcohol Expectancies in Middle School Youths — 2009
Drinking behavior in preadolescence is a significant predictor of both short- and long-term negative consequences. This study examined the psychometric properties of 1 known risk factor for drinking in this age group, alcohol expectancies, within an item response theory framework.
Community Prevention Handbook on Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment: Evidence-Based Practices — 2009
Substance abuse is, and has always been, an indisputable fact of life. People -- especially young people -- abuse various legal and illegal substances for any number of reasons: to intensify feelings, to achieve deeper consciousness, to escape reality, to self-medicate.
Creating a Developmentally Sensitive Measure of Adolescent Alcohol Misuse: An Application of Item Response Theory — 2009
This study, funded by the US National Institute on Drug Abuse, evaluates the usefulness of item response theory to create a developmental alcohol misuse scale.
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