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. 2009;32(1):53–66.

Table 2C.

Summary of Preventive Interventions Classified as Most Promising Targeting Adolescents in Three Different Age-Groups

High-School Students or Older Participants Ages 16 to More Than 20 Years
Intervention Type Domain Sample/Ethnicity/Setting Main Results Sources
Project Toward No Drug Abuse Selective and indicated School
  • 42 schools, 2,468 high-school students

  • Multiethnic

  • Southern California

  • Reduced levels of alcohol use among baseline users at 1-year followup

  • Reduced number of drinks per month at 22-month followup

Sussman et al. 2002
Yale Work and Family Stress Project Universal Workplace
  • 4 job sites, 239 secretarial employees

  • Primarily White

  • Connecticut-based corporations

  • Problem drinkers benefited more from enhanced program in reducing DUI recidivism

Snow et al. 2002
Mississippi Alcohol Safety Education Program and Added Brief Individual Intervention Indicated Community
  • 4,074 adjudicated first-time DUI offenders (primarily male)

  • 36 percent minorities

  • Mississippi

  • Women tended to have lower rates of recidivism and higher rates of depressed mood than did men

Wells-Parker and Williams 2002

NOTE: For more information on these results, see Spoth et al. 2008