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Newest firstThe California Department of Education (CDE) has operated the statewide, school-based, Tobacco-Use Prevention Education (TUPE) Program since 1989. Evaluating the impact of such a program is challenging in a real-world context, where multiple tobacco prevention activities have been ongoing for years and occur simultaneously. This study aimed to determine how TUPE funding was distributed geographically and whether i…
Open article record in new tab ↗Background Substance use is an escalating public health problem in South Africa resulting in risky behaviours and poor educational attainment among adolescents. There is a huge battle to overcome substance use among learners as more drugs become easily available with the mean age of drug experimentation reported to be at 12 years of age. It is important to continuously understand the trends in substance use in ord…
Open article record in new tab ↗ABSTRACTPURPOSEThis study explored differences between lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB)‐housed and homeless students regarding substance use patterns on and off school grounds and the unique contribution of homelessness to substance use in school.METHODSData were from the 2013‐2015 California Healthy Kids Survey, a statewide survey of school protective factors and risk behaviors. A representative sample of 9th‐ an…
Open article record in new tab ↗OBJECTIVES: To examine whether young peoples' risk of cannabis, mephedrone and novel psychoactive substances (NPS) use is associated with school substance-misuse policy. DESIGN: A cross-sectional survey of secondary school students combined with a School Environment Questionnaire and independently coded school substance-misuse policies (2015/6). SETTING: 66 secondary schools in Wales. PARTICIPANTS: Students aged 1…
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