Activities that teach refusal or resistance skills are incorporated into the program along with opportunities for practice. These programs help prepare students to identify pressures to use drugs and give students the skills they need to resist peer pressure to use drugs.

Supporting Citations:

Dusenbury, L. & Falco, M. (1995). Eleven components of effective drug abuse prevention curricula. Journal of School Health, 65(10), 420-425.

Elias, J.J. et al. (1991). The promotion of social competence: Longitudinal study of a preventive school-based program American Journal of Ortho- psychiatry, 61(3), 409-417.