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Graham, S. Scott – Written Communication, 2021
This article offers a longitudinal computational-rhetorical analysis of biomedical writing on opioids. Using a corpus of 1,467 articles and essays published in the "New England Journal of Medicine" and the "Journal of the American Medical Association" between 1959 and May 2019, this study evaluates diachronic shifts in (a) the…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Drug Abuse, Epidemiology, Medical Research
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Gaiha, Shivani Mathur; Warnock, Amelia; Kile, Shelby; Brake, Kennon; Vong do Rosario, Clementino; Oates, Gabriela R.; Halpern-Felsher, Bonnie; Walley, Susan Chu – Health Education Journal, 2022
Background: E-cigarette prevention education aims to mitigate adolescent e-cigarette use. Such education is increasingly delivered through virtual/video-based teaching platforms (e.g. Zoom, Google Classrooms). However, there is little evidence about the effectiveness of virtual e-cigarette education compared to in-person education on adolescents'…
Descriptors: Smoking, In Person Learning, Health Behavior, Risk
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Lichtenberg, Nina T.; Thompson, Andrew B.; Iguchi, Martin Y.; Evans, Christopher J.; Romero-Calderón, Rafael – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2020
Drug Outreach, Promoting Awareness (DOPA) is an undergraduate outreach program for local high school students designed to convey the neurobiological basis, risks, and addictive potential of commonly abused drugs. Here we describe DOPA and evaluate the program, including its impact on high school student attitudes about drug harm risk and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Drug Education, Outreach Programs, Risk