Annual Report on School Safety. It shows what measures some schools have taken to prevent and address school violence, refining and revising the program information provided in last year's report. A list of resources is included. Examining paths of influence in young adolescents' alcohol use. Data were from adolescents participating in Project Northland, a school and community based alcohol use prevention trial.
Findings indicate that higher levels of friends' drug use led to increased participant alcohol use.
The authors conclude that similarity in drinking behavior among adolescent friends is more related to peer influence than to peer selection. Alcohol use prevention programs should equip teens with skills to resist peer pressure to use alcohol. Associations between alcohol intoxication and violent behaviour in adolescence. An association between alcohol intoxication and violent behavior was found. However, in the youngest age group, the alcohol and violence association was found only among those who were also engaged in other problem behaviors, such as delinquency and illicit drug use.