Gilbert J. Botvin

Preventing illicit drug use in adolescents

National survey data indicate that illicit drug use has steadily increased among American adolescents since 1992. This upward trend underscores the need for identifying effectiv...

Effectiveness of culturally focused and generic skills training approaches to alcohol and drug abuse prevention among minority youths.

The authors tested the effectiveness of 2 alcohol and drug abuse prevention programs among inner-city minority 7th-grade students (N = 639) from 6 New York City public schools. ...

Preventing binge drinking during early adolescence: One- and two- year follow-up of a school-based preventive intervention.

Preventing Tobacco and Alcohol Use Among Elementary School Students Through Life Skills Training

ABSTRACT The present study examined the effectiveness of a substance abuse prevention program in preventing tobacco and alcohol use among elementary school students in grades 3 ...

A cognitive-behavioral approach to substance abuse prevention

A cognitive-behavioral approach to substance abuse prevention: One-year follow-up

School-Based Drug Abuse Prevention with Inner-City Minority Youth

SUMMARY This study tested the effectiveness of a drag abuse prevention intervention with a predominantly minority sample of seventh-grade students (N = 721) in 7 urban schools i...

Long-term Follow-up Results of a Randomized Drug Abuse Prevention Trial in a White Middle-class Population

Drug abuse prevention programs conducted during junior high school can produce meaningful and durable reductions in tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use if they (1) teach a combi...

Preventing adolescent drug abuse through a multimodal cognitive-behavioral approach: Results of a 3-year study.

Preventing Youth Violence and Delinquency through a Universal School-Based Prevention Approach

Violence is an important public health problem among adolescents in the United States. Substance use and violence tend to co-occur among adolescents and appear to have similar e...

Effectiveness of culturally focused and generic skills training approaches to alcohol and drug abuse prevention among minority adolescents: Two-year follow-up results.