Preventing Drug Abuse among Children and Adolescents

Preventing Drug Abuse among Children and Adolescents is organized by The Center for Addiction Studies and Research. This course has been approved for a maximum of 25 Hours.

Overview:
This course focuses on research-based principles for preventing alcohol and drug abuse among children and adolescents.

Topics covered include:
• Patterns of drug use among children and adolescents
• Risk and protective factors among children and adolescents
• Community-based prevention models
• Applying prevention principles to drug abuse prevention programs
• Models of research-based prevention programs
• Principles of substance abuse prevention for early childhood
• Characteristic features of early childhood interventions
• Universal, selective, and tiered early intervention substance abuse prevention programs