Methamphetamine Prevention

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) continues to support research to develop effective drug abuse prevention programs. In 2003, NIDA revised its Preventing Drug Use Among Children and Adolescents: A ResearchBased Guide for Parents, Educators, and Community Leaders, which presents updated researchbased prevention principles, an overview of program planning, and critical first steps for those learning about prevention. Because the goal of drug abuse prevention efforts is to prevent the initiation of drug use, most of these prevention efforts are not targeted toward any specific drug. However, recent results also demonstrate that these universal prevention programs can be effective at reducing methamphetamine abuse specifically. Read the complete report here (Prevention p.28).