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As a general rule, most drug abuse prevention projects that make the effort to conduct a serious evaluation of outcomes can show successful results. Well-documented successes, however, represent only a small fraction of the field. The majority of prevention programs operating during the late 1980s were unwilling or unable to report on a credible evaluation.
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Stoil, M.J., Hill, G. (1996). What Doesn’t Work. In: Preventing Substance Abuse. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0417-3_12
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