Midwestern Prevention Project
A comprehensive, community-based, multifaceted program intended to prevent or reduce gateway substance use (alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana) in early to middle adolescence, particularly sixth and seventh graders. The program strives to help youths recognize the social pressures to use drugs and to provide them with assertiveness skills to help refuse peer pressure and avoid drug use. The program was designed to eliminate gateway substance use in middle school students and to reduce the risk of delinquency across the lifespan.
Professor
Preventive Medicine
University of Southern California
Soto Street Building
2001 N. Soto Street, Room 302X,MC 9239
Los Angeles CA 90032–3628
Phone: 323.442.8239
E-mail: cchou@usc.edu
