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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
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Hamilton, Gloria J. – Psychology in the Schools, 2009
This article presents current statistics on nonmedical use of both categories of prescription medications by high school and college students. The incidence of nonmedical use of prescription medications continues to increase among high school and college students. Two categories of drugs that are commonly used for reasons other than those for…
Descriptors: College Students, High School Students, Narcotics, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder