Tracy Diaz

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.

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...

Drug Abuse Prevention Among Minority Adolescents: Posttest and One-Year Follow-Up of a School-Based Preventive Intervention