Background Drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease. Primary interventions should
aim to reduce first use or to prevent the transition from experimental use to addiction. School …

Background Helping young people to avoid starting smoking is a widely endorsed public
health goal, and schools provide a route to communicate with nearly all young people …

OBJECTIVE: We aimed to identify effective program components of interventions to promote
mental health and prevent mental disorders and risk behaviors during adolescence and to …

Objective To assess effectiveness of school-based smoking prevention curricula keeping
children never-smokers. Design Systematic review, meta-analysis. Data: MEDLINE (1966+) …

Background: Alcohol use in adolescents constitutes a major public health concern. Europe
is the heaviest drinking region of the world. Several school-based alcohol prevention …

A randomized controlled trial was conducted in 2014 with 7th and 8th grade students from
72 public schools in 6 Brazilian cities. This trial aimed to evaluate the effects of an adapted …

Aims The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the government school‐based
program# Tamojunto2. 0, the third Brazilian version of the European drug prevention …

Abstract Background Most Brazilian schools do not have a continuous program for drug use
prevention and do not conduct culturally adapted activities for that purpose. This study …

School-based health promotion interventions (HPIs) are commonly used in schools, but
scientific evidence about the structures of effective interventions is lacking. Therefore, we …

Background School-based programs are the most convenient interventions to tackle
substance use among youth.“Unplugged” is a Social Influence universal school curriculum …