A community prevention intervention to reduce youth from inhaling and ingesting harmful legal products.
Youth use of harmful legal products, including inhaling or ingesting everyday household products, prescription drugs, and over-the-counter drugs, constitutes a growing health problem for American society. As such, a single targeted approach to preventing such a drug problem in a community is unlikely to be sufficient to reduce use and abuse at the youth population level. Therefore, the primary focus of this article is on an innovative, comprehensive, community-based prevention intervention. The intervention described here is based upon prior research that has a potential of preventing youth use of alcohol and other legal products. It builds upon three evidence-based prevention interventions from the substance abuse field: community mobilization, environmental strategies, and school-based prevention education intervention. The results of a feasibility project are presented and the description of a planned efficacy trial is discussed.
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Louisville, Kentucky 40208, USA. kwjohnson@pire.org
Knowlton
K
Johnson
Harold
H
Holder
Kristen
K
Ogilvie
David
D
Collins
Diane
D
Ogilvie
Brian
B
Saylor
Matthew
M
Courser
Brenda
B
Miller
Roland
R
Moore
Bob
B
Saltz
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004777:Environment; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D001239:Inhalation; D012572:School Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*