Innovations in adolescent substance abuse intervention

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13220393_Innovations_in_adolescent_substance_abuse_intervention

Abstract: Adolescent alcohol and other drug abuse is an important public health concern, and the past two decades has seen a dramatic increase in the demand for interventions to address substance use problems among teenagers. This demand has led to the development of multiple primary, secondary, and tertiary substance abuse prevention programs, some of which have little theoretical basis and most of which currently operate in the absence of data supporting their effectiveness.