Adolescent substance abuse prevention: An overview of the literature

A synthesis review of exemplary drug abuse prevention programs in the United States

“…Some of these work reviewed several adolescent problem areas, and others focused on drug abuse or a related content domain (e.g., delinquency) only. These selected reviews were the following (in chronological order of their publication): (1) the review of more than 100 prevention programs related to substance abuse, school dropout, juvenile delinquency, and teen pregnancy by Dryfoos (1990); (2) the overview of the adolescent substance abuse prevention literature by Logan (1991); (3) the review of school-based curricula for drug prevention by Elias, Gager, and Leon (1997); (4) the meta-analysis of effective interventions for juvenile offenders by Lipsey and Wilson (1998); (5) the review of school and community prevention programs that promote youth competence by Weissberg and Greenberg (1998); (6) the process evaluation of common implementation strategies for implementing the Life Skills Training drug prevention program in schools by Fagan and Mihalic (2003); and (7) the publication by Nation et al (2003) in which nine general characteristics of effective intervention elements common across four content areas (i.e., substance abuse, risky sexual behavior, school failure, and juvenile delinquency and violence) were identified.…”

Mom Empowerment, Too! (ME2): A Program for Young Mothers Involved in Substance Abuse

“…Additionally, fear of the abuser and lack of knowledge of available resources or how to work the system to obtain help compound problems of access to community services ( Riggs, 1995). Various forms of abuse as well as low self‐esteem, peer pressure, helplessness, hopelessness, and other stressors become triggers for substance abuse ( Abbott, 1994; Lindenberg et al, 1998; Logan, 1991). Even when parents and adolescents have good relationships, if there is substance abuse by the parents, the adolescents will likely also abuse substances ( Andrews, Hops, & Duncan, 1997).…”

The Substance Abuse Pandemic: Determinants to Guide Interventions

“…Included as special populations of concern are women, the elderly, ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians, and adult children of substance abusers (Lawson & Lawson, 1989;Lex, 1985). Others are adolescents (Logan, 1991;Smart & Jansen, 1991) and pregnant women and their growing fetuses (Lindenberg et al, 1991). Certain aspects of substance abuse are common across these populations, but other aspects are specific and warrant further study.…”