Preventing Drug Abuse -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- 1 Illicit Drug Use in the United States -- DIAGNOSING DRUG PROBLEMS -- The Individual Perspective -- Age-Related Characteristics -- Sequence and Progression of Drug Involvement -- Consequences -- The Community Perspective -- TRENDS IN DRUG USE -- Population Survey Results -- Validity and Reliability of Survey Data -- DAWN Data -- Data on Treatment Demand -- Drug Abuse and AIDS -- Criminal Justice Statistics -- Reasons for the Decline in the General Population -- DISAGGREGATION OF SPECIAL POPULATIONS -- Age -- Race and Ethnicity -- Socioeconomic and Economic Factors -- SUMMARY -- 2 Concepts of Prevention -- INTRODUCTION -- The Risk Factor Approach -- The Developmental Approach -- Social Influence Approaches -- The Community-Specific Approach -- STUDIES OF RISK AND VULNERABILITY -- Genetic and Congenital Predispositions -- Personality Characteristics -- Socioeconomic Factors at the Neighborhood Level -- Relationships Among Risk Factors -- Research Needs -- THE DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH -- A Model of Progressive Problem Behavior -- Taking the Model Seriously: Reforming the School -- Research Needs -- SOCIAL INFLUENCE AND SOCIAL LEARNING -- Research Needs -- SUMMARY -- 3 Evaluating Prevention Program Effects -- META-ANALYSES OF PREVENTION INTERVENTIONS -- Tobler I -- Tobler II -- Other Meta-Analyses -- Summary -- THREE PROGRAMS MEETING TOBLER'S CRITERIA -- Life Skills Training Program -- The Cognitive-Behavioral Approach -- The Napa Drug Abuse Prevention Project -- DO LARGE-SCALE SOCIAL INFLUENCE PROGRAMS WORK? -- Waterloo -- Project ALERT -- DARE -- Here's Looking at You -- RESEARCH IN PROGRESS -- Developmental Interventions -- Midwestern Prevention Project -- Summary -- MASS MEDIA AND DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION -- CONCLUSIONS AND RESEARCH NEEDS -- Social Influence Research.

Ethnicity and Gender: The Neglected Dimensions -- Generic Interventions -- Appendix Community Settings and Channels for Prevention -- COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS -- Defining Community -- Communities and Mass Media -- THE LOGIC OF COMMUNITY-WIDE INTERVENTIONS -- Epidemiologic Dimensions -- Social-Psychological Dimensions -- Economic Dimensions -- THE SIZE, SCOPE, AND COMPLEXITY OF COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS -- APPROACHES TO COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH -- Community Participation -- Program Implementation and Evaluation -- Training and Evaluation -- Diffusion Research -- Community-Wide Trials -- SCHOOL AS A SETTING FOR INTERVENTION -- Purpose and Functions of School Health Programs -- Components of School Health -- Evaluation of School Health Education -- The Family as a Channel -- THE WORKPLACE SETTING -- THE HEALTH CARE SETTING -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- Index.