Handbook of Drug Abuse Prevention

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. Historical Overview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Emerging Science of Drug Abuse Prevention

      • William J. Bukoski

      Pages 3-24

3. Social Contexts of Prevention

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Effective Mass Media Strategies for Drug Abuse Prevention Campaigns

      • Philip Palmgreen, Lewis Donohew

      Pages 27-43

   3. Drug Abuse Prevention Curricula in Schools

      • Gilbert J. Botvin, Kenneth W. Griffin

      Pages 45-74

   4. Dissemination of Research-Based Family Interventions for the Prevention of Substance Abuse

      • Karol L. Kumpfer, Steve Alder

      Pages 75-100

   5. Peers and the Prevention of Adolescent Drug Use

      • E. R. Oetting, R. S. Lynch

      Pages 101-127

   6. Mobilizing Communities To Reduce Risk for Drug Abuse: A Comparison of Two Strategies

      • Michael W. Arthur, Charles D. Ayers, Kelly A. Graham, J. David Hawkins

      Pages 129-144

   7. Community-Focused Drug Abuse Prevention

      • Barry M. Kibel, Harold D. Holder

      Pages 145-156

   8. Drug Abuse Prevention in the Workplace

      • Royer F. Cook

      Pages 157-172

   9. Prevention Approaches in Methadone Treatment Settings: Children of Drug Abuse Treatment Clients

      • Richard F. Catalano, Kevin P. Haggerty, Randy R. Gainey

      Pages 173-196

4. Prevention as Social Control

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197

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   2. Drug Tests in Prevention Research

      • Robert L. DuPont, Keith E. Saylor

      Pages 199-215

   3. Anti-Drug-Abuse Policies as Prevention Strategies

      • Mary Ann Pentz

      Pages 217-241

5. Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Prevention

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. Forging a Relationship between Drug Abuse Epidemiology and Drug Abuse Prevention

      • Zili Sloboda

      Pages 245-264

   3. Risk and Protective Factors of Adolescent Drug Use: Implications for Prevention Programs

      • Judith S. Brook, David W. Brook, Linda Richter, Martin Whiteman

      Pages 265-287

   4. Bridging the Gap between Substance Use Prevention Theory and Practice

      • Brian R. Flay, John Petraitis

      Pages 289-305

   5. Preventive Intervention Targeting Precursors

      • John E. Lochman

      Pages 307-326

There are a number of reasons why this book is important. First, there is no one source that summarizes what we know about the prevention of substance abuse from the research field, so the book serves as a repository of accumulated knowledge on prevention theory, intervention design, and development and prevention research methodology. Second, as an evolving field, prevention science has only begun to assert itself in both the arenas of practice and policy. The formation of the Society for Prevention Research in 1991 was the first recognition that a science of prevention existed and required a separate forum to present the rapidly growing content of the field for dis­ cussion and review. Finally, there is a need to establish a baseline, a reference point against which progress in the field of prevention science can be assessed. This book serves all of these purposes. The idea for this book grew from the observation in the early 1990s that after decades of attempts to develop effectiveinterventions to prevent drug use among children and adolescents in the United States that we were finally having success, particularly in addressing the initiation of use. These successes are the result of research that has provided a better understanding of the factors and processes associated with the onset of substance use.

• Gender
• Nation
• epidemiology
• mass media
• prevention
• prevention strategies

"The text under review is a product of the recent progress made in the field of substance abuse prevention toward establishing a practical foundation supported by research and science.  It represents a concerted effort to summarize the latest information in the field of substance abuse prevention." (Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 31:2)

"The 692 page tome is comprehensive in scope, with chapters ranging from community mobilization and mass media strategies to school-based, family-based, and peer group-based intervention programs, as well as prevention in the workplace and for special populations such as females, Latinos, African Americans, American Indians, and Asians and Pacific Islanders. These excellent essays, written by authors with considerable expertise in their respective specialties are highly recommended, not only for those interested in prevention issues, but for all persons concerned with the issues of drugs in modern society." (James F. Rooney; Health, Illness, and Medicine, 33:2)

• Department of Sociology and Institute for Health and Social Policy, The University of Akron, Akron, USA

  Zili Sloboda

• National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

  William J. Bukoski

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