Abstract
addresses several variationson a theme, namely: what is the state of drug prevention programming in ournation’s elementary schools? There is now abundant evidence to suggest thatpre-adolescents, or “tweens” as they have been called (Pasch, Perry, Stigler,& Komro, 2008), are already beginning to experiment with alcohol and othersubstances by the time they are 12 or 13. The most recent statistics availablefrom the household-based National Survey on Drug Use and Health suggest thatas of 2007 about 3.5% of the nation’s 12 and 13 year olds were current drinkers,and 1.5% were “binge” or heavy drinkers (Substance Abuse and Mental HealthServices Administration [SAMHSA], 2008). Statistics derived from other stateand national data sets indicate that about 4.1% of 6th graders report current(i.e., 30-day) alcohol use. Thisfinding, Donovan (2007) points out, isremarkablyconsistent across several state and regional surveys. As suggested by a survey ofa large national convenience sample that was conducted by PRIDE in 2001-02,students between the 5th and 6th grade enter a critical developmental timeperiodduringwhichtheirannualuseofbeer,winecoolers,andliquordoubles(Donovan,Leech, Zucker, Loveland-Cherry, Jester, Fitzgerald, et al., 2004). By contrast,prevalenceratesofexperimentalalcoholusebetween4thand5thgradearestatic.
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