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Webcast: Getting to Outcomes in Underage Drinking Prevention — May 21, 2012

In honor of National Underage Drinking Prevention Day, there will be a live, interactive webcast today (May 21) about successful approaches and resources to prevent underage drinking. The issue of underage drinking may sometimes be overshadowed by other forms of substance use, but it remains a steady and significant problem in the United States.

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Scheduling of Newly Emerging Drugs: A Critical Review of Decisions Over 40 Years — Apr 1, 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.

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Intergenerational Relationships Between the Smoking Patterns of a Population-Representative Sample of US Mothers and the Smoking Trajectories of Their Children — Apr 1, 2012

The authors assessed intergenerational transmission of smoking in mother-child dyads.

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Resisting Smoking When a Best Friend Smokes: Do Intrapersonal and Contextual Factors Matter? — Feb 29, 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.

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Voluntary After-School Program Can Reduce Alcohol Use Among Middle School Children — Feb 8, 2012

If prevention researchers build programs with developmentally relevant content, and provide this content in an engaging, confidential, and non-judgmental way, it can help middle school-aged children avoid alcohol.

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Social Distance and Homophily in Adolescent Smoking Initiation — Jan 1, 2012

The association between peer smoking and adolescent smoking initiation appears to be due to both peer selection and direct influence.

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Voluntary After-School Program Can Reduce Alcohol Use Among Middle School Children — Feb 8, 2012

If prevention researchers build programs with developmentally relevant content, and provide this content in an engaging, confidential, and non-judgmental way, it can help middle school-aged children avoid alcohol.

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Targeting Anti-Smoking Messages: Does Audience Race Matter? — Jan 1, 2012

This study examined whether an adolescent's self-identified race moderates the perceived effectiveness of anti-smoking messages.

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Establishing and Evaluating the Key Functions of an Interactive Systems Framework Using an Assets-Getting to Outcomes Intervention — Jan 1, 2012

Community practitioners can face difficulty in achieving outcomes demonstrated by prevention science.

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The Influence of Mental Disorders on School Dropout in Mexico — Nov 1, 2011

Studies the impact of mental disorders on failure in educational attainment in Mexico.

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Multisite Cost Analysis of a School-Based Voluntary Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program — Aug 31, 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.

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Getting to Outcomes with Developmental Assets: Ten Steps to Measuring Success in Youth Programs and Communities — Aug 25, 2011

For communities and organizations working with youth, this manual offers a straightforward and adaptable plan for building community initiatives and youth programs that get results. Because youth programs and community initiatives are required by their funders to document outcomes, this 10-step process poses different accountability questions. Each step is accompanied with examples from Search Institute and Healthy Communities*Healthy…

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Social Networks of Homeless Youth in Emerging Adulthood — Jul 31, 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.

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Motives for Smoking in Movies Affect Future Smoking Risk in Middle School Students: An Experimental Investigation — Jan 1, 2011

Exposure to movies that portray motivations for smoking places adolescents at particular risk for future smoking.

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The Effectiveness of Community-Based Delivery of an Evidence-Based Treatment for Adolescent Substance Use — Jan 1, 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.

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Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research: Is There No Place Like Home? — Dec 31, 2010

Latent class analysis. A new approach to studying the role of place in population health, can be used in both research and practice.

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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 — Dec 31, 2010

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.

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Friendship Networks and Trajectories of Adolescent Tobacco Use — Jul 1, 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.

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Association Between Adolescent Viewership and Alcohol Advertising on Cable Television — Feb 28, 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.

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Associations Between Abstinence in Adolescence and Economic and Educational Outcomes Seven Years Later Among High-Risk Youth — Dec 31, 2009

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.

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