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