School-based drug prevention – The Gatehouse intervention
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School-based interventions have always been a mainstay of drug prevention policy. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, it is widely recognised that significant changes in social relationships and learning environment during adolescence are important factors in determining the initiation of drug use. Given that most adolescents spend a large proportion of their daily time at school, it is logical to focus the prevention effort in a school setting. Secondly, the school setting is usually adequately flexible to adopt a wide range of educational policies. Therefore, school-based interventions offer a systematic and efficient way of reaching the intervention targets [1-3].
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