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. 2007;37(3):227-47.
doi: 10.2190/DE.37.3.b.

A community prevention intervention to reduce youth from inhaling and ingesting harmful legal products

Knowlton Johnson  1 , Harold Holder, Kristen Ogilvie, David Collins, Diane Ogilvie, Brian Saylor, Matthew Courser, Brenda Miller, Roland Moore, Bob Saltz
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A community prevention intervention to reduce youth from inhaling and ingesting harmful legal products

Knowlton Johnson et al. J Drug Educ. 2007.

Abstract

Youth use of harmful legal products, including inhaling or ingesting everyday household products, prescription drugs, and over-the-counter drugs, constitutes a growing health problem for American society. As such, a single targeted approach to preventing such a drug problem in a community is unlikely to be sufficient to reduce use and abuse at the youth population level. Therefore, the primary focus of this article is on an innovative, comprehensive, community-based prevention intervention. The intervention described here is based upon prior research that has a potential of preventing youth use of alcohol and other legal products. It builds upon three evidence-based prevention interventions from the substance abuse field: community mobilization, environmental strategies, and school-based prevention education intervention. The results of a feasibility project are presented and the description of a planned efficacy trial is discussed.

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Conceptual framework for the Community Prevention Intervention.
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