ERIC Number: EJ460831
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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Changing Adolescent Propensities to Use Drugs: Results from Project ALERT.
Ellickson, Phyllis L.; And Others
Health Education Quarterly, v20 n2 p227-42 Sum 1993
Evaluation with over 4,000 seventh and eighth graders in California and Oregon showed that Project ALERT, a curriculum to curb drug use by teaching resistance to pressures, successfully dampened cognitive risk factors for cigarette and marijuana use but had limited impact on beliefs about alcohol. (SK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Change, Beliefs, Cognitive Psychology, Coping, Drinking, Drug Abuse, Grade 7, Grade 8, Intermediate Grades, Marijuana, Peer Influence, Prevention, Smoking
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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