Journal article
Prevention, early intervention, harm reduction, and treatment of substance use in young people
Emily Stockings, Wayne D Hall, Michael Lynskey, Katherine I Morley, Nicola Reavley, John Strang, George Patton, Louisa Degenhardt
LANCET PSYCHIATRY | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Published : 2016
Abstract
We did a systematic review of reviews with evidence on the effectiveness of prevention, early intervention, harm reduction, and treatment of problem use in young people for tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs (eg, cannabis, opioids, amphetamines, or cocaine). Taxation, public consumption bans, advertising restrictions, and minimum legal age are effective measures to reduce alcohol and tobacco use, but are not available to target illicit drugs. Interpretation of the available evidence for school-based prevention is affected by methodological issues; interventions that incorporate skills training are more likely to be effective than information provision-which is ineffective. Social norms and ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank Mary Kumvaj, Megan Weier, and Sarah Yeates for their assistance with the literature searches. ES is funded through the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre for Research Excellence in Mental Health Systems Improvement (number 1041131). NR is supported by an NHMRC career development fellowship (number 1083394). LD is supported by an NHMRC principal research fellowship (number 1041472). GP is supported by an NHMRC senior principal research fellowship (number 1019887). The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia is supported by funding from the Australian Government under the Substance Misuse Prevention and Service Improvements Grant Fund. The Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research receives funding from the Graeme Wood Foundation, University of Queensland, and the Queensland University of Technology. JS is supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at the South London and Maudsley National Health Service Foundation Trust, and King's College London. No funder had any role in the conceptualisation or completion of this Series paper.