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Standalone life skill-based interventions to reduce hard drug use
Summary of the evidence
Life skills programmes were found in a systematic review (Faggiano et al., 2014) to have a more positive trend than usual curricula in:
- reducing use of hard drugs at >12 months follow-up (RR 0.69, 95 % CI 0.40 to 1.18, 1 study, N=2090)
- reducing use of hard drugs at 12+ months follow-up (MD -0.01, 95 % CI -0.06 to 0.04, 1 study, N=1075)