NCJ Number
176404
Date Published
1997
Length
40 pages
Annotation
The Drugs Prevention Initiative (DPI) in the United Kingdom is part of the government's strategy to deal with drug misuse and is a 10-year program covering 1990 to 1999 designed to test a wide range of drug prevention approaches in local communities.
Abstract
About 16 million people live in areas covered by the DPI's 12 drug prevention teams, and these teams work in active partnership with all sections of the community. The aim of DPI is to gather high-quality information about drug prevention by grouping projects from different team areas so that experience from different parts of the country feeds into a corporate learning process. The DPI addresses four main areas of action: young people, communities, parents, and the criminal justice system. The progress of DPI during 1996-1997 is reviewed, findings from projects are summarized, and lessons learned from the projects for policy and practice are identified. The focus is on drug education in schools, information campaigns, peer approaches, high-risk interventions, community involvement, racial and cultural diversity, rural communities, drug prevention training, parental involvement, and criminal justice system interventions. 37 photographs