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School-Based Drug Prevention
What Kind of Drug Use Does It Prevent?
School-based drug prevention, popular with the public and politicians alike, is now a nearly universal experience for American youth. Analysis has shown that the best programs can reduce use of a wide range of substances. But questions remain regarding how to think about and, hence, fund, these programs. Should they be viewed principally as weapons in the war against illicit drugs, or, at the other extreme, do prevention programs benefit students and society most by reducing use of alcohol and tobacco? The authors address these questions by comparing for the first time the social benefits of school-based prevention programs' long-run impacts on a diverse set of different substances.
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Contents
Chapter One:
Introduction
Chapter Two:
Social Benefit and Cost Results
Chapter Three:
Lifetime Drug Consumption Without Prevention
Chapter Four:
School-Based Prevention's Effectiveness at the End of the Program
Chapter Five:
School-Based Prevention's Effectiveness at Reducing Lifetime Drug Use
Chapter Six:
Adjustments to Prevention's Effectiveness
Chapter Seven:
Social Costs of Drug Consumption
Appendix A:
Low, Medium, and High Estimates for the Ten Factors in the Prevention Model
Appendix B:
Recoding Consumption Values From the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
Appendix C:
Program Descriptions
Appendix D:
Aggregating Program
Appendix E:
Program Effectivemess Decay
Appendix F:
Effects on Lifetime Consumption
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