This is a program we have worked to get funded since 2016. And while I’ve spent three years trying to bring it to Virginia, Jasmin Vassileva Phd has spent seven years. VCU Institute of Drug & Alcohol Studies and Beacon Tree Foundation are behind the grant.
This will be the first study in the U.S. on this intervention.
Preventure is an evidence-based prevention intervention included in the first-ever US Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health.
The intervention is associated with 30-80% reductions in alcohol and drug use in adolescents in schools at 3-year follow-up. It … Read more...