Eating disorders have increased dramatically over the past two decades, but the primary
prevention of these disorders has received little attention. This article summarizes our …

Presented is a meta-analysis of the outcome results for 143 adolescent drug prevention
programs to identify the most effective program modalities for reducing teenage drug use …

An individual's decision to use alcohol and the frequency, quantity, and situation of such use
are the result of a combination of biological and social factors. Drinking is not only a …

Prevention programs for eating disorders attempt to simultaneously prevent new cases from
arising (primary prevention) and encourage students who already have symptoms to seek …

In this ambitious interdisciplinary study, James B. Jacobs provides the first comprehensive
review and analysis of America's drunk driving problem and of America's anti-drunk driving …

Public service advertisings (PSAs) typically attempt to increase public awareness of such
problems and their possible solutions, and in many instances also try to influence public …

In this paper I use a new data set to estimate the optimal alcohol tax rate. As a benchmark,
the empirical results imply that the optimal tax rate is over 100 percent of the net‐of‐tax …

A review of alcoholism prevention efforts on federal, state, and local levels reveals the
following:(a) Prevention has ranked lowest among all alcoholism and drug-dependence …

The nature of alcohol problems is very diverse and the strategies adopted for minimising
these vary even more. Thinking in the study of alcohol problems in the 1970s and early …

The effectiveness of cognitive-affective stress management training (SMT) as a drinking
reduction program for heavy social drinking college students was investigated. The SMT …