Expand & Improve Support for Youth Outreach, Leadership, Prevention, and Education

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Background

A positive relationship between peer drug use and drug use among adolescents is well-established in scientific literature.[1][2][3][4][5] Recently, a study of teen and adult drivers showed that the reward-processing areas of the brains of teens are more active when their behavior is observed, suggesting that the "presence of peers is sufficient in itself to make risks feel more worthwhile to teens," including using drugs.[6]
 

 

School Based Prevention

Social Resistance Skills
In this type of training, students are taught how to recognize situations in which they are likely to face peer pressure and are given strategies to deal with these situations including formulating counter arguments.[7] This approach alone does not counteract peer pressure, but can be effective when used in conjunction with normative education.[8][9]

Normative Education
This approach attempts to counteract inaccurate perceptions of drug and alcohol abuse. According to Griffen and Botvin (2010) "Many adolescents overestimate the prevalence of smoking, drinking, and the use of certain drugs, which can make substance use seem to be normative behavior. Educating youth about actual rates of use, which are almost always lower than the perceived rates of use, can reduce perceptions regarding the social acceptability of drug use."[10] Studies have shown that normative education alone and in conjunction with social resistance training can be effective in reducing alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use among adolescents.[11]

Competence Enhancement/Life Skills Training (LST)
This approach focuses on the social learning processes that play a role in the development of drug use in adolescents. Students are taught some combination of the following life skills:

      • general problem solving and decision-making
      • general cognitive skills for resisting interpersonal media influences
      • skills for increasing self-control and self-esteem
      • adapting coping strategies for relieving stress and anxiety through use of cognitive coping skills or behavioral relaxation techniques
      • general social skills and general assertive skills[12]

LST is effective in reducing use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and other psychoactive drugs and is estimated to save $38 for every dollar invested.[13]

Campaigns for Helping Teens to Not Misuse Drugs

Above the Influence national awareness campaign

Parental Involvement

High levels of parental disapproval of drug use may mitigate the negative influence of drug-using peers.[14]

  See Also: Empower & Strengthen Parents

 

Mentorship and Support

Previous research has shown a relationship between peer mentorship and reduction in the size of peer substance-user networks and substance use risk among youth with at least one HIV-positive parent.[15] More recently, a study showed that greater levels of perceived teacher support was negatively correlated with marijuana and drug use and positively correlated with academic performance. [16]

 

Tools & Resources

TR - Train Youth in How to Resist Peer Pressure to Try Drugs

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Sources

  1. Santor, Darcy A., Deanna Messervey, and Vivek Kusumakar. "Measuring peer pressure, popularity, and conformity in adolescent boys and girls: Predicting school performance, sexual attitudes, and substance abuse." Journal of youth and adolescence 29.2 (2000): 163-182.
  2. Dielman, T. E., et al. "Susceptibility to peer pressure, self-esteem, and health locus of control as correlates of adolescent substance abuse." Health Education & Behavior 14.2 (1987): 207-221.
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  6. Chein, J., Albert, D., O’Brien, L., Uckert, K. and Steinberg, L. (2011), Peers increase adolescent risk taking by enhancing activity in the brain’s reward circuitry. Developmental Science, 14: F1–F10. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.01035.x
  7. Griffin, Kenneth W., and Gilbert J. Botvin. “Evidence-Based Interventions for Preventing Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents.” Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America 19.3 (2010): 505–526. PMC.
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