TOPIC: Substance Abuse Prevention and Intervention

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Articles

• Creating School and Community Partnerships for Substance Abuse Prevention Programs

Newsletter

• Substance Abuse Prevention: Toward Comprehensive, Multifaceted Approaches

Continuing Education Module

• Resource and Technical Aids - Substance Abuse: Indicators and Screening

Policy and Practice Reports

• Youth Substance Use Interventions: Where Do they Fit into a School's Mission?
• Youth Risk Taking Behavior: The Role of Schools

Practice Notes

• Prescription Drugs Abuse Among Youth

Resource Aid Packets

• Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools
• Students and Psychotropic Medication: The School's Role
• Substance Abuse

Technical Assistance Sampler

• Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning

Prevention
• Assessing Substance Use and Abuse Among Adolescents
• Breaking the Cycle of Drug Use Among Juvenile Offenders
• Caring for Our Youth: Resources To Help Prevent Teen Drug Abuse
• Community Monitoring Systems: Tracking and Improving the Well-being of America's Children and Adolescents (2007) National Institute on Drug Abuse
• Combining in-school and community-based media effort: reducing marijuana and alcohol uptake among younger adolescents
• Examples of exemplary/promising programs
• Factors associated with adoption of evidence-based substance use prevention curricula in US school districts
• How not to Get High, Get Stupid, Get AIDS: A Guide to Partying
• Iatrogenic effects of psychosocial interventions for substance use disorders: Prevalence, predictors, prevention
• Improving the quality of health care for mental and substance-use conditions: quality chasm series
• National Drug Facts Week Website
• Predictors of Initiation of Alcohol Use Among US Adolescents
• Preventing Drug Use Among Children and Adolescents: A Research-Based Guide
• Prevention Basics for Families, National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
• Preventing Drug Use among Children and Adolescents: A Research-Based Guide for Parents, Educators, and Community Leaders
• "The Cool Spot," National Institute on Alcoholism website for middle school students
• Tips for Parents on Keeping Children Drug Free
• What Works: Prevention Youth Substance Abuse in Your Community
• What Are the True Benefits of School-Based Drug Prevention Programs?

Treatment

• Alcohol, drug, and mental health specialty treatment services and race/ethnicity: a national study of children and families involved with children welfare (2006) A. Libby, et al, American Journal of Public Health, 96(4) 628-631.
• Alcohol and Drug Treatment: How It Works, And How It Can Help You
• A Guide to Substance Abuse Services for Primary Clinicians # 24
• Exposure to Substance Use Prevention Messages and Substance Use Among Adolescents, 2002 to 2007
• Misuse of over the counter cough and cold medications among persons aged 12 to 25
• Nine elements of effective alcohol treatment for adolescents
• Prescription Drugs: Abuse and Addiction
• Screening and Assessing Adolescents for Substance Use Disorders
• Services for Youth with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders and their Families
• Serious mental illness and its co-occurrence with substance use disorders, 2002 (2004) J. Epstein, et al, DHHS Publications No. SMA 04-3905, Analytic Series A-24, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Students
• Substance Abuse Treatment and Family Therapy, Treatment Improvement Protocol #39
• Substance Abuse Treatment Need Among Adolescents: 2003-2004. (2006)
• Treatment of Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders
• Trends in Substance use, Dependence or Abuse and Treatment Among Adolescents: 2002-2007 (SAMHSA)

Reports

• 2010 Monitoring the Future Survey: Teen marijuana use increases as does ecstasy use and continued high levels of prescription drug abuse.
• Adolescent Treatment Admissions, 1992-2002, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
• Comparing Drug Testing and Self Report of Drug Use Among Youths and Young Adults in the General Population
• Facilities Providing Substance Abuse Treatment in Languages Other than English
• Illicit drug use by race/ethnicity in metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties: 2004 and 2005
• Integration of Mental Health/Substance Abuse and Primary care (2008) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• Latest National Survey on Drug Use & Health (SAMHSA)
• Monitoring the Future national survey results on adolescent drug use
• Monitoring the Future national survey results on adolescent drug use, 1975-2008
• Monthly Variation in substance Use Initiation Among Adolescents
• National Survey on Drug Use & Health
• National Survey on Drug Use & Health Report: Patterns and trends in inhalant use by adolescent males and females, 2002-2005
• NIDA High School Curriculum-The Brain: Understanding Neurobiology through the study of addiction.
• Parent Awareness of Youth Use of Cigarettes, Alcohol, and Marijuana
• Policy statement on mental health and use of alcohol and other drugs, screening, and assessment of children in foster care (2003)
• Quantity and frequency of alcohol use among underage drinkers (2008) National Survey on Drug Use and Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration
• Report to Congress on the Prevention and Reduction of Underage Drinking
• State Estimates of Substance Use from the 2005-2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (from SAMHSA)
• Study Reports Reduced Substance Abuse Among High Risk Youth
• The annual tracking study report by the Partnership for a Drug Free America
• The Co-Occurring Center for Excellence (COCE) (SAMHSA)
• Trends in Substance Use, Dependence or Abuse, and Treatment among Adolescents: 2002 to 2007

General

• 2007 Fact Sheet: Substance Abuse-Adolescents and Young Adults (NAHIC)
• A Day in the Life of American Adolescents - Substance Use Facts
• Alcohol Dependence or Abuse and Age at First Use
• "Are You in Recovery from Alcohol or Drug Problems? Know Your Rights"
• Children's beliefs about substance use: An examination of age differences in implicit and explicit cognitive precursors of substance use initiation. (2007) R. O'Conner, et al., Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 21(4)525-533
• Criminal neglect: Substance Abuse, Juvenile Justice and the children left behind
• Definitions and terms relating to co-occurring disorders
• Depression and the Initiation of Alcohol and Other Drug Use among Youths Aged 12 to 17 (from the National Survey on Drug Use and health)
• Heads Up, materials for middle and high school students from NIDA and Scholastic
• Helping Child Welfare Workers Support Families With Substance Use, Mental, and Co-Occurring Disorders
• NIDA InfoFacts: Inhalants
• Malignant Neglect: Substance Abuse and America's Schools
• Media Awareness: A School Guide
• Monitoring the Future: 1975-2008 Trends
• Monitoring the Future: 2010 Trends
• Monitoring the Future Survey, Overview of Findings 2011
• Multi-language Resources on Substance Abuse Treatment Materials
• National Institute on Drug Abuse
• National Institute on Drug Abuse website for teens
• National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XII: Teens and Parents. (2007) The National Center of Addiction and Substance Abuse
• National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XVII: Teen, 2012
• National Survey on Drug Use & Health
• Nonmedical Use of Adderall Among Full-Time College Students
• Protecting Children in Families Affected by Substance Use Disorders
• Socioeconomic Status, Depressive Symptoms, and Adolescent Substance Use
• Who is this kid? To help parents grasp teen behavior and connect with their kids (2008)
• Working Together for Change: Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Among Youth Involved in the Juvenile Justice System Cross-Training Curriculum

Video Clips

• SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information

• AddictionSearch.com
• Alcohol Policy Information System
• Center for Science in the Public Interest Alcohol Policies Project
• Center for Substance Abuse Research
• Free to Grow
• Healthy People Website (DHHS)
• ImpacTeen
• Monitoring the Future
• The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
• National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information  electronic books
• National Institute on Drug Abuse
• National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)
• Partnership for a Drug-Free America: Drug Free Resource Net
• SAMHSA's substance abuse treatment 24-hour helpline
• The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• Substance Abuse Resource Center
• Treatment 4 Addiction
• Treatment Improvement Exchange
• Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center (UDETC)

• What Adults Need to Know about Kids and Substance Use: Dealing with Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs. By Sadler, K. (2011). Search Institute Press.
• Preventing substance abuse among African American children and youth: Race differences in risk factor exposure and vulnerability. Wallace, J. M., Jr., & Muroff, J. R. (2002). The Journal of Primary Prevention 22(3), 235-261.
• Are risk and protective factors for substance use consistent across historical time?: National data from the high school classes of 1976 through 1997. Brown, T. N., Schulenberg, J., Bachman, J.G., O'Malley, P.M., & Johnston, L.D. (2001). Prevention Science 2(1), 29-43.
• Editors' introduction: Prevention as altering the course of development and the complementary purposes of developmental and prevention sciences. Maggs, J.L. & Schulenberg, J. (2001). Applied Developmental Science, 5(4), 196-200
• The problem of college drinking: Insights from a developmental perspective. Schulenberg, J., Maggs, J.L., Long, S.W., Sher, K.J., Gotham, H.J., Baer, J.S., Kivlahan, D.R., Marlatt, G.A., & Zucker, R.A. (2001). Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research, 25, 473-477.
• Adolescent marijuana use and adult occupational attainment: A longitudinal study from age 18 to 28. Schuster, C., O'Malley, P.M., Bachman, J.G., Johnston, L.D., & Schulenberg, J. (2001). Substance Use & Misuse 36(8), 997-1014.
• Understanding the links among school misbehavior, academic achievement, and cigarette use: A national panel study of adolescents. Bryant, A. L., Schulenberg, J., Bachman, J. G., O'Malley, P. M., & Johnston, L. D. (2000). Prevention Science 1(2), 71-87
• The decline of substance use in young adulthood: Changes in social activities, roles, and beliefs. Bachman, J.G., O'Malley, P.M., Schulenberg, J.E., Johnston, L.D., Bryant, A.L., & Merline, A.C. (2002). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• The Monitoring the Future National survey results on adolescent drug use: Overview of key findings, 2001 (NIH Publication No. 02-5105). Johnston, L.D., O'Malley, P.M., & Bachman, J.G. (2002). Bethesda, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse, c. 61 pp.
• Adolescents' Reactions to Universal and Indicated Prevention Programs for Depression: Perceived Stigma and COnsumer Satisfaction. Rapee, R.M., Wignall, A., Sheffield, J., Kowalenko, N., Davis, A., McLoone, J., & Spence, S.H. (2006).Prevention Science 7:2 167 CrossRef
• Development matters: Taking the long view on substance abuse etiology and intervention during adolescence. In P.M. Monti, S.M. Colby, & T.A. O'Leary (Eds.), Schulenberg, J., Maggs, J.L., Steinman, K., & Zucker, R.A. (2001). Adolescents, alcohol, and substance abuse: Reaching teens through brief intervention (pp. 19-57). New York: Guilford Press.
• Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Adolescent Substance Abuse. Barrett, H.B., & Turner, C.W. (2008). Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology 37(1), 238-261

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