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The NARCONON™ drug education curriculum for high school students: A non-randomized, controlled prevention trial

Overview of attention for article published in Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, March 2008
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Title
The NARCONON™ drug education curriculum for high school students: A non-randomized, controlled prevention trial
Published in
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, March 2008
DOI 10.1186/1747-597x-3-8
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Authors

Richard D Lennox, Marie A Cecchini

Abstract

An estimated 13 million youths aged 12 to 17 become involved with alcohol, tobacco and other drugs annually. The number of 12- to 17-year olds abusing controlled prescription drugs increased an alarming 212 percent between 1992 and 2003. For many youths, substance abuse precedes academic and health problems including lower grades, higher truancy, drop out decisions, delayed or damaged physical, cognitive, and emotional development, or a variety of other costly consequences. For thirty years the Narconon program has worked with schools and community groups providing single educational modules aimed at supplementing existing classroom-based prevention activities. In 2004, Narconon International developed a multi-module, universal prevention curriculum for high school ages based on drug abuse etiology, program quality management data, prevention theory and best practices. We review the curriculum and its rationale and test its ability to change drug use behavior, perceptions of risk/benefits, and general knowledge.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
Ethiopia 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 148 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 25 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 14%
Student > Master 19 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 10%
Student > Bachelor 13 8%
Other 24 15%
Unknown 38 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 28 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 27 17%
Psychology 27 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 6%
Neuroscience 5 3%
Other 14 9%
Unknown 44 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 October 2022.
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#1,905,560
of 23,001,641 outputs
Outputs from Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
#75
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#4,880
of 82,134 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
#2
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