eMJA: Intervening early to reduce developmentally harmful substance use among youth populations

To the Editor: According to a recent article in the Journal, the pervasive nature of under-age drinking underscores the need to develop prevention strategies to delay the onset of alcohol use and its adverse consequences.1 In the United States, school-based prevention programs have played a prominent role in the alcohol-use prevention scene. Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE), the most widely recognised school-based alcohol-use prevention effort, is an elementary school curriculum that focuses on the adverse effects of substances of misuse, and the development of skills to resist peer pressure to use. Despite its nationwide appeal, attempts to empirically evaluate the efficacy of DARE have failed to yield positive results.2

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