Prevention Programs Reduce Drug Use Among High-Risk Youth

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
High Risk Youth

Characteristics of Effective Substance Abuse Prevention Programs for High-Risk Youth

2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Fred Springer ◽  
Elizabeth Sale ◽  
Jack Hermann ◽  
Soledad Sambrano ◽  
Rafa Kasim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Substance Abuse Prevention ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Abuse Prevention ◽  
High Risk Youth

Concurrent prediction of drug use among high-risk youth

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J McCuller ◽  
Steve Sussman ◽  
Clyde W Dent ◽  
Lorena Teran
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
High Risk Youth

Enhancing Outcomes in an Indicated Drug Prevention Program for High-Risk Youth

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine A. Thompson ◽  
Michael Horn ◽  
Jerald R. Herting ◽  
Leona L. Eggert
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Drug Prevention ◽  
High Risk Youth

This study examined the net effects of refining a high school-based indicated drug prevention program. The Personal Growth Class ( PGC), tailored to meet the needs of high-risk youth, was designed to increase control of drug use, school performance, and emotional well-being. The program integrates social support and life-skills training. Process evaluation revealed the need for program enhancements to address underestimated levels of depression, anger, and suicidal behaviors prevalent among high-risk youth and to ensure that core content was being emphasized consistently. Youth participating in Late cohorts received the refined PGC with enhanced skills training. Study participants ( N = 280) were youth, primarily ages fifteen to seventeen, at high-risk for school failure or dropout. Indicators of emotional well-being (e.g., depression, stress, anger, self-esteem, personal control), drug involvement, and school performance were compared for Late versus Early cohorts. Regression analyses revealed the Late versus Early cohorts showed significantly greater decreases in hard drug use, depression, perceived stress, and anger; and greater increases in self-esteem. The results support arguments that effective indicated prevention programs should target specific high-risk youth employing strategies to counteract the multifaceted risk factors they experience and enhance needed protective factors.

Group self-identification as a prospective predictor of drug use and violence in high-risk youth.

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Sussman ◽  
Clyde W. Dent ◽  
William J. McCullar
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
High Risk Youth ◽  
Group Self

scholarly journals Childhood Trauma and Injection Drug Use Among High-Risk Youth

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Kerr ◽  
Jo-Anne Stoltz ◽  
Brandon D.L. Marshall ◽  
Calvin Lai ◽  
Steffanie A. Strathdee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Injection Drug Use ◽  
Injection Drug ◽  
High Risk Youth

Drug Involvement among Potential Dropouts and “Typical” Youth

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leona L. Eggert ◽  
Jerald R. Herting
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Low Risk ◽  
School Students ◽  
School Problems ◽  
Low Frequencies ◽  
Drug Involvement ◽  
High Risk Youth

Drug involvement, conceptualized as drug use frequency, drug access, drug use control, and adverse use consequences, is described and compared among two randomly selected groups of students aged fourteen to nineteen years: 203 low-risk typical high-school students and 160 youths at high-risk of school problems and dropout. High-risk youth, compared to low-risk youth and national statistics, endorsed a much greater breadth and depth of drug use, greater access to drugs, less drug use control, and greater adverse consequences due to use. A secondary analysis showed low-risk users (experimenters) were similar to high-risk youth in their access to drugs and eroding drug use control, but showed low frequencies of drug use and negligible adverse use consequences. Measuring and exploring these four facets of drug involvement provided a robust picture of the adolescents' drug milieu and revealed differences in patterns of drug involvement that would not have been evident by looking purely at drug use frequency. Implications for prevention programming are suggested.

Substance Abuse Prevention for High-Risk Youth: Exploring Culture and Alcohol and Drug Use

2012 ◽  
pp. 165-184
Author(s):  
Lori K. Holleran ◽  
Margaret A. Taylor-Seehafer ◽  
Elizabeth C. Pomeroy ◽  
James Alan Neff
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Substance Abuse Prevention ◽  
Abuse Prevention ◽  
Alcohol And Drug Use ◽  
High Risk Youth
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