Pilot Test of Project CHOICE: A Voluntary Afterschool Intervention for Middle School Youth 2006
The current study reports findings from a pilot evaluation of a voluntary alcohol and marijuana intervention for young teens.
Reports and Articles - Youth
Below are the most recent reports and articles from the RAND Drug Policy Research Center. Please visit our RAND Topics pages for a complete research archive on these and other drug policy-related research topics.
RAND Topic Pages: Underage Substance Use2007
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Preventing Underage Drinking: Using Getting To Outcomes™ with the SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework to Achieve Results 2007
Alcohol is the primary contributor to adolescent deaths in the United States. Structured according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) Strategic Prevention Framework, a five-step prevention approach, this comprehensive guide to developing, implementing, and evaluating a communitywide plan to prevent underage drinking adopts the Getting To Outcomes model of evaluation, accountability, and improvement.
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Project CHAT: A Brief Motivational Substance Abuse Intervention for Teens in Primary Care 2007
Feedback from the MI pilot indicated that teens were willing to talk about their AOD use and indicated readiness to change. Findings suggest that providing a brief MI in a PC setting is a viable approach for working with high-risk youth.
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"But Others Do It!": Do Misperceptions of Schoolmate Alcohol and Marijuana Use Predict Subsequent Drug Use Among Young Adolescents? 2006
The authors examined the effects of perceived prevalence of drug use among same-age peers on adolescents' subsequent drug use. Although perceived prevalence of drug use predicted subsequent alcohol and marijuana use when controlling for actual prevalence, these effects disappeared once participants' prior levels of drug use and proximal peer contacts were considered.
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School-based Drug Prevention Among At-Risk Adolescents: Effects of ALERT Plus 2006
Project ALERT drug prevention curriculum curbed alcohol misuse and tobacco and marijuana use among eighth-grade adolescents. This article reports effects among ninth-grade at-risk adolescents.
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Smoking Rates Among Adolescents in Substance Abuse Treatment Programs 2006
No systematic analyses have established an association between smoking and recovery from drug and alcohol problems after drug treatment for adolescents. The authors examined smoking rates by recovery status among youths admitted to one of ten treatment programs participating in the Adolescent Treatment Models evaluation between 1998 and 2001.
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Treatment Process in the Therapeutic Community: Associations with Retention and Outcomes Among Adolescent Residential Clients 2006
This study examined associations of a new multidimensional measure of therapeutic community (TC) treatment process, the Dimensions of Change Instrument (DCI), with treatment retention (n = 397) and posttreatment outcomes (n = 207) among adolescent residential clients.
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Using Outcomes to Assess Teen Substance-Use Treatment Programs -- How Feasible? 2007
This study explored using outcome data to assess adolescent substance abuse treatment program performance. However, this approach may be problematic. A more promising approach may be to identify quality-of-care indicators for assessing performance.
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Adolescent Predictors of Generalized Health Risk in Young Adulthood: A 10-Year Longitudinal Assessment 2005
The authors conducted a prospective examination of multiple adolescent predictors of generalized health risk in early adulthood.
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Adolescent Self-Selection of Service Formats: Implications for Secondary Interventions Targeting Alcohol Use 2005
A novel motivational enhancement based secondary alcohol intervention has been shown to increase quit attempts for youth with heavier alcohol use histories
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Are Drug Experimenters Better Adjusted Than Abstainers and Users? A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Marijuana Use 2005
Results refute the idea that adolescents who abstain from substance use are maladjusted, and suggest instead that they function better than experimenters later in life, during the transition to young adulthood.
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Cigarette Smoking from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Women's Developmental Trajectories and Associates Outcomes 2005
Women with certain patterns of smoking from age 13-23 are at heightened risk for early transitions to sexual activity and parenthood, as well as health, behavioral, and socioeconomic problems during young adulthood.
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Does Solitary Substance Use Increase Adolescents' Risk for Poor Psychosocial and Behavioral Outcomes? A 9-Year Longitudinal Study Comparing Solitary and Social Users 2005
Results indicate the importance of better understanding and addressing the needs of this understudied group of high-risk youth.
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Escalation and Initiation of Younger Adolescents' Substance Use: The Impact of Perceived Peer Use 2005
Results highlight the importance of perceived peer use in predicting both onset and escalation of use and suggest utilizing a multifaceted prevention approach that targets multiple substances.
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Forging the Link Between Alcohol Advertising and Underage Drinking 2006
This research brief shows that alcohol advertising appears to promote adolescent drinking and suggests that school drug prevention programs can blunt the impact of alcohol ads on youth.
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National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign and School-Based Drug Prevention: Evidence for a Synergistic Effect in ALERT Plus 2005
45 South Dakota high schools and their middle-school feeder(s) were randomly assigned to an ALERT condition (basic prevention curriculum delivered in 7th and 8th grades), an ALERT Plus condition (basic curriculum with booster lessons added for 9th and 10th grades), or a control condition. Marijuana use in the past month was significantly less likely among ALERT Plus students reporting at least weekly exposure to anti-drug media messages.
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Project ALERT Plus May Leverage the Effect of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign 2006
This fact sheet reports lowered use of marijuana among ninth graders exposed to anti-drug messages from the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign along with Project ALERT Plus, a drug prevention curriculum for middle school students.
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Reducing Substance Use Improves Adolescents' School Attendance 2005
Substance use initiation and frequency are associated with reduced educational attainments among adolescents. Reductions in the frequency of alcohol, stimulants and other drug use and the elimination of marijuana use were each associated independently with increased likelihoods of school attendance.
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The Relationship Between High School Marijuana Use and Annual Earnings Among Young Adult Males 2005
This article uses a unique panel data set to examine the relationship between high school marijuana use and annual earnings at age 29.
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The Relative Effectiveness of 10 Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Programs in the United States 2006
This study compares the effectiveness of 11 U.S. community-based substance abuse treatment programs for adolescents. After accounting for pretreatment differences between the youths entering each program, no persuasive evidence was found to suggest that any program produced superior outcomes. The significance of the findings for current efforts to develop outcomes-based treatment performance measurement systems is highlighted in the discussion.