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Mentoring for preventing drug use in young people
Summary of the evidence
No pooled analysis could be done on mentoring (understood here to mean a supportive relationship in which one person offers support, guidance and concrete assistance to the partner, based on the sharing of experience and expertise without expectation of personal gain by the mentor — Center for Substance Abuse Prevention 2000) in a systematic review (Thomas et al., 2011) for:
- preventing drug use.