Research Brief
Helping Adolescents Resist Drugs
Jan 1, 2000
Lessons from the Project ALERT Program
Published in: Social Programs that Work / Edited by Jonathan Crane (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998), Chapter 8, p. 201-224
Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 1998
This chapter describes the lessons that project ALERT has to teach about what kind of program can effectively curb substance abuse, for whom it is effective, and how long program benefits last with and without reinforcement.
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