Abstract
In summary, the field of drug abuse prevention has emerged over the past 15 years as a credible scientific discipline that has produced significant understanding of the underlying psychosocial risks and protective factors associated with drug use onset and progression to abuse. In addition, evidence from randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental studies of theory-based drug abuse prevention interventions indicates that a growing number of drug abuse prevention programs and policies have demonstrated efficacy in reducing risks and moderating drug abuse behaviors of youths provided the programs in comparison to controls. Based upon this body of research, drug abuse prevention principles have been developed and applied in the practice community. Finally, the field of prevention science is beginning to address the important research questions associated with taking evidence-based drug abuse prevention programs and policies to scale in the prevention practice system at the state and community level.
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