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In the war on drugs, children are on the front lines. Is just saying no protection enough? The authors examine the results of popular school drug prevention programs to determine how effective they are at reducing cocaine use and whether these programs are money well spent, when compared with drug-enforcement or drug-treatment programs.
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Uses results from the school-based drug prevention programs Project ALERT and Life Skills to answer questions surrounding the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of drug prevention programs and how they compare, dollar for dollar, with other approaches to drug control, such as enforcement or treatment. Discusses implications of findings for school-based drug prevention as a matter of national drug control policy, and shows how different analytical assumptions may result in different answers. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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