contemplates indicate that rates of alcohol an tobacco use increase among high institute students as they age.contemplates indicate that rates of alcohol an tobacco use increase among high institute students as they age. Prevention programs that target youth either before or during junior high drill may help prevent such substance use during high educate Dr. Gilbert J. Botvin and M Lori Wolfgang Kantor describe common school-based program--Life Skills Training (LST)--designed to interrupt substance abuse among youth by the agency of influencing risk factors associated with the early stages of alcohol, tobacco, and other medicine use. The authors describe the rationale behind the LST approach, discuss the program's component parts and their implementation, and review research evaluating the effectiveness of the program. Early LST research focused forward tobacco use and involved predominantly white middle-class populations. However, more latter research has examined the use of the LST approach in preventing alcohol, marijuana, and other illicit mix with drugs use. Recent research also has evaluated the LST approach among minority populations and has assessed the l ong-term durability of LST as a tool for the prevention of substance abuse in adolescents. (pp 250-257) COPYRIGHT 2000 U control Printing Office |
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