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Brief School-Based Interventions and Behavioral Outcomes for Substance-Using Adolescents

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Systematic Review

Source: The Cochrane Collaborative

Last Reviewed: January 2016

Workgroups: Substance Use Workgroup

In this Cochrane systematic review, the Cochrane Collaborative found that adolescents who get a brief school-based intervention are probably more likely to reduce their drinking and cannabis use than those who don’t get any intervention. However, brief interventions don’t seem to be more effective at reducing drinking and cannabis use than information-only interventions. The brief interventions in the studies were given to individuals or groups in person and included as many as 4 sessions.

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Objectives related to this resource (6)

Reduce the proportion of adolescents who drank alcohol in the past month — SU‑04
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of adolescents who used marijuana in the past month — SU‑06
Getting worse
Reduce the proportion of people under 21 years who engaged in binge drinking in the past month — SU‑09
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of people who had opioid use disorder in the past year — SU‑18
Improving
Reduce the proportion of people who misused a prescription pain reliever in the past year — SU‑19
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of prescription pain reliever misuse initiation in the past year — SU‑20
Target met or exceeded

Suggested Citation

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Carney, T., Myers, B.J., Louw, J. & Okwundu, CI. (2016). Brief school‐based interventions and behavioral outcomes for substance‐using adolescents. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2016 (1). DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD008969.pub3.