Prevention Strategies with Drug and Alcohol

Prevention Strategies

Prevention strategy options are quite broad and have been shown to have varying degrees of long-term effectiveness. Among the most prominent initiatives are information strategies, or teaching facts about the legal, physiological, and psychological consequences of psychoactive drug use and abuse using didactic presentations, discussions, and audio-visual presentations.

Adolescents and adults alike typically overestimate the level of drug use among their peers and the general population, which leads to inaccurate normative expectations and a set of expectations around drug use. Using normative education as a strategy makes students aware that most people do not use drugs ...