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Drug Abuse Prevention


Research Topics

Topics of interest in the area of youth drug abuse prevention include but are not limited to:

  • Underlying Processes and Mechanisms that Account for Prevention Program/Strategy Effectiveness
  • Methodology: Research Designs, Instruments, Data Analytic Procedures Appropriate for Multi-level Prevention Research
  • Efficacy and Effectiveness of School-, Family-, Peer-, Media-, and Community-based Prevention Interventions
  • Efficacy and Effectiveness of Comprehensive Universal, Selected and Indicated Drug Abuse Prevention Interventions
  • Adoption, Adaptation, Sustainability and Outcomes of Effective Interventions in New and Existing Service Delivery Systems
  • Controlled Studies that Take Efficacious and Effective Interventions to Different Settings
  • Efficacy and Effectiveness of Strategies to Address Multiple Negative Outcomes: Drug Abuse, Violence, HIV/AIDS, Other
  • Gender, Development and Culture Sensitive Approaches to Prevention
  • Prevention Services Research to Assess the Organization, Management, Delivery and Financing of Drug Abuse Prevention Strategies
  • Efficacy and Effectiveness Special Programs for Pregnant and Post Partum Women

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