Efforts to prevent young people from beginning underage drinking and substance abuse.
Researchers find that keeping middle school students from alcohol and drugs is a much tougher task in the inner city, even when the best prevention programs are utilized.
If you have preteen or teenaged children and you are concerned about them becoming involved in alcohol or drugs, there is something that you can do to prevent it: talk to them.
Each year across the United States, hundreds of teens are killed or injured in alcohol-related accidents connected with their prom night celebrations.
One of the reasons Alcohol Awareness Month is held in April is because it is the beginning of the prom and graduation season, a time when celebrations can turn dangerous for underage drinkers
The United States made little, if any, progress in 2004 in reducing the number-one drug problem among youth, according to a new status report on underage drinking.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has released a new version of The Cool Spot, the institute's website for middle school children.
The 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health indicated a five percent decline in the number of American youth between the ages of 12 and 17 who have ever used marijuana.
High school program decreased the abuse of stimulant medications and other substances believed to enhance body image or performance among female high school athletes, while encouraging healthy behaviors.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and Scholastic, Inc., are teaming up to educate students in fifth grade classrooms nationwide on the dangers of underage alcohol use.
The idea behind "Too Smart to Start" is to reach out to children and caregivers before children start drinking alcohol.
A new study that shows teens who see or hear anti-drug ads at least once a day have significantly stronger anti-drug attitudes and are up to 38 percent less likely to use drugs.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has announced the launch of a new website aimed specifically at educating youth about addiction and drug abuse.
Results of a recently published study show that Project ALERT, a widely used school-based drug abuse prevention program, successfully curbs the use of alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana among middle-school students.
The program "Keepin' It R.E.A.L," developed jointly by Penn State and Arizona State University, has succeeded at teaching middle school students to say no to drugs by appealing to their traditional ethnic values, whether European-American, Hispanic or African-American.
Teens who have an active spiritual life are half as likely to become alcoholics or drug addicts or even try illegal drugs, according to a new study.
Teachers of middle school and high school students find many ways to use SAMHSA's popular Tips for Teens series as part of their schools' prevention curricula.
Rutgers University has received a five-year, $6 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to establish a center to develop innovative drug abuse prevention programs targeted to young people.
