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EU-Dap TOT Network: European Drug Abuse Prevention Training of Trainers Network

The overarching goal of the EU-Dap TOT network is to ensure the quality control of efficacy-tested school-based programmes based on a Comprehensive Social Influence model during the dissemination stage. In such a prevention programme the interactive training of the teachers is an evidence-based and indispensable component. The trainers themselves have to be trained in the ‘TOT’ concept, and with the diversity of languages and cultures in the EU, the ‘master trainers’ responsible for this training of trainers must rely on a standardised methodology, evidence-based and of high quality. This is realised by the EU-Dap drug abuse prevention network. Therefore the leading partners of this quality control project are installing the EU-Dap ‘Faculty’.

Evaluation Provides Credible Evidence that U.S. National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign Was Not Effective in Reducing Youth Drug Use

As reported by the Cesar Fax (www.cesar.umd.edu), an evaluation of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign provides credible evidence that the campaign was not effective in reducing youth drug use, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accounting Agency (GAO). Between 1998 and 2004 Congress appropriated more than $1.2 billion to the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) for the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, a project that aimed to prevent and reduce youth drug use (primarily marijuana and inhalants). In 2005, Westat, Inc., completed an ONDCP-funded evaluation of the campaign.

European Network for Practical Approaches in Addiction Prevention - EuroNet

EuroNet is a network of institutions focusing on the development of cooperation in the prevention of addiction within Europe.

Some useful internet reference sources related to the prevention of drug use and other substance misuse

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