This instructional program, developed by the National Public Services Research Institute, is designed for implementation in secondary schools. It employs a student-centered approach in order to simulate the kind of interactions youth experience when making decisions to drink or not to drink. The teacher guide provides background and administrative…

Enhancing Drug Education in the South was a project conducted by the Southern Regional Education Board in 1971-74. The project held regional conferences that brought together people in the SREB region with State-level responsibility for planning alcohol and drug education programs in an effort to find solutions to common problems such as…

These participant and administrator manuals are designed for a seminar on alcohol and safety. This seminar is intended to be a small-group, intensive planning session dealing with the problems of handling people charged with drinking-driving offenses. The participants should be enforcement, judicial, presentence, prosecution, probation,…

Summaries are presented of over 150 articles in the recent medical and psychiatric literature. Topics covered are: effects of drugs, tobacco, alcohol, drugs used in medicine, vapor sniffing, marijuana, barbiturates, tranquilizers, amphetamines, methamphetamine, lysergic acid diethylamide, other hallucinogens, heroin and the opiates, psychiatric…

This is a resource book prepared as a single source of practical material to help classroom teachers develop effective approaches to alcohol education. It attempts to present the kinds of approaches that are most likely to lead to responsible behavior in relation to these beverages. The material is not presented as a "canned curriculum" or a unit…

In Spokane, Washington, an alcohol education program has developed prevention methods for alcohol abuse by getting the community, the schools and higher education to cooperate. Discusses the program's main components--teacher and community education. (RK)

The Marshall Project is a federally funded demonstration program in the prevention of teenage alcohol abuse. It has been designed as a community-based project in which one rural community (Marshall, Wisconsin) is the client of the project's members (graduate student social workers from the University of Wisconsin). (AUTHOR)

Examines assumptions underlying alcohol education programs and program impact from inferential and deductive logic perspectives. Combines review of existing empirical evidence concerning effectiveness of alcohol education with the outcome of a deductive-logical analysis, resulting in a series of explicit, realistic, recommendations for effective…

Presented drug and alcohol education program to third and fourth graders in 21 elementary schools. Administered measure of decision-making and self-esteem as pre-, post-, and second post-test to 520 participants. Trends in data supported an effect of program over time. (Author/NB)

Evaluates "Here's Looking at You Two," a successful alcohol and drug education curriculum that emphasizes increasing self-esteem, reducing peer influence, and providing information about drugs. Subjects (N=869) were eighth-grade students from two schools. Results showed that use of three of six substances was lower in the experimental school. (BH)

Evaluated an intervention to reduce impaired driving among students (N=21) by administering a questionnaire before and after the intervention. Results showed significant positive changes along a number of dimensions among students who received the intervention compared to those who did not. (BH)

Describes a program in the Somerville, Massachusetts, elementary schools, designed to help children cope with the emotional distress of family alcoholism and to prevent them from abusing alcohol in adolescence or adulthood. Program structure and results are discussed. (JAC)

This study examined the perceptions of 207 elected peer leaders in a seventh grade smoking prevention program and in a chemical abuse prevention program. Peer leaders' assessments of the adequacy of their training, the programs' components, the programs' influence on behavior and attitudes, and the programs' efficacy were analyzed. (Author/MT)

Describes a successful drug and alcohol prevention program developed at Forest Hills School District (Ohio). The program uses athletic coaches to recruit student athletes to support the antidrug program and to bring peer pressure to bear in discouraging drug and alcohol use by their teammates and other students. (MD)

Investigated the effects of a two-week alcohol education module presented as part of an environmental physiology class (N=17). Results showed the module increased knowledge and responsible attitudes among students immediately following the program and one month later and reduced incidence of negative behavioral consequences related to alcohol.…