Families strive to find the best ways to raise their children to live happy, healthy and productive lives. Parents are often concerned about whether their children will start or are already using drugs such as tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and others, including the abuse of prescription drugs. Research supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has shown the important role that parents play in preventing their children from starting to use drugs.
These guidelines contain evidence of effectiveness, principles of family skills training programmes, cultural adaptation guidelines, advice on how to recruit and retain families through the programmes, practical advice on training of staff, as well as information about monitoring and evaluating family skills training programmes.
This report provides policymakers, programme managers, non-governmental organisations and others interested in implementing family skills training programmes with a review of existing evidence-based family skills training programmes.
This paper from Dr. Paul Manning at the University of Winchester, UK, suggests that there are more than three YouTube videos potentially promoting or discussing drug use for every one with a formal prevention message.
The Euro-TC Conference 2012 will take place in Mallorca from 25 - 26 of October 2012 with the title: Drug Prevention and Treatment in Europe; Protecting Achievements in Times of Crisis & The European Family Empowerment Project.
'One Way 2012' is social electronic music event that aims to raise public awareness of the negative action of drugs. It will be held at Leo Souza Stud, Recife, Brazil.
SALSA ("Students Advocating for Life without Substance Abuse") is an innovative program for students who choose not to use alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.