Step 2a: Resources
- Adolescent substance use: risk and protection. Analysis for the various risk and protective factors that influence young people’s attitudes and behaviours with regard to substance use.
- Drug use prevention: an overview of research (NACD, 2001). First report to be published by the National Advisory Committee on Drugs. This statement recognises the extent to which drug prevention is related to other social and educational problems and accordingly proposes to link drug specific interventions with interventions in related areas.
- Understanding risk, protection and substance use among high-risk youth (CSAP, 2002). This monograph contributes to understanding how prevention can strengthen conditions that help youth at risk avoid substance use by presenting evidence, findings, and recommendations. Effective programme strategy must involve messages and activities that are meaningful to the particular circumstances of youth.
- Etiology of drug abuse: implications for prevention (NIDA research Monograph 56, 1985). This etiologic research has sought to identify factors which place persons and populations at risk for drug abuse.
- Risk factors for adolescent problem behaviors (Comprehensive Youth Strategy for Muskegon County, Michigan, 2002). Community, family, school and individual domains risk factors and its data indicators.
- Risk factors for adolescent problem behaviours 2 (2002). Community, family and school risk factors and data indicators.
- Tackling drugs with vulnerable young people: examples from health action zones (Department of Health, Ireland, 2001). Helping young people resist drug misuse so that they can achieve their full potential in society. The strategy’s underlying principal is to shift the emphasis from reactive drug treatment to proactive drug prevention.
- Vulnerable young people and drugs - opportunities to tackle inequalities (DrugScope, 2001). In early 1999 the Department of Health funded a rapid programme of research and development that ended March 2000. The programme intended to deliver research based evidence which will underpin the development of high quality and effective interventions with groups of young people thought to be vulnerable to developing drug misuse problems.
- The Importance of Family Dinners II (CASA, 2005). CASA research has consistently shown that the more often teenagers have dinner with their families, the less likely they are to smoke, drink or use drugs.
