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The study found that while parenting does influence students norms and attitudes about alcohol use in the beneficial direction, parenting does not directly influence students intentions to use alcohol. However, exposure to outdoor alcohol advertising does increase students intentions to use alcohol as well as positive attitudes about alcohol use.

Study Author: Kristen D. Holtz Ph.D., KDH Research & Communication Inc., and Eric C. Twombly Ph.D., Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

Drug use and misuse among teens is a persistent public health problem. During the past two decades, teen use of alcohol, nicotine and marijuana was a primary concern. While recent research shows that misuse of these drugs has decreased, a potentially more difficult problem has arisen, namely, the misuse of prescription drug use by teens. Not only is this a substantial public health problem because of the wide scale and often unsecured availability of prescription drugs, but also because recent evidence points to a surge in usage among teens. In fact, the magnitude of growth in prescription drug misuse has prompted some to label the current generation of youth as Generation Rx.

This paper will focus on teen knowledge and attitudes toward prescription drug misuse and ways to prevent prescription drug use.

Study Author: Jacqueline Cohen, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

In 2004, the federal government launched a research program to investigate youth violence prevention through community-level change. The program was designed to help answer the question: How effective are changes to community and social c
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