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Life skill and social influence–based interventions to reduce hard drug use
Summary of the evidence
School programmes based on a combination of social competence (life skills-based) and social influence approaches were found in a systematic review (Faggiano et al., 2014) to have no different effect than usual school curricula or no intervention in:
- reducing hard drug use at <12 months follow-up (conflicting results between dichotomous and continuous outcomes within 1 study, N=693)
- reducing hard drug use at 12+ months follow-up (RR 0.86, 95 % CI 0.39 to 1.90, 2 studies, N=1066)
