Classroom topics include nutrition, strength training, drug-refusal role playing, creation of media campaigns, and antisteroid information. That's remarkable for an intervention study to remain positive for 1 year. Peer counselors were chosen by coaches. And the program has had desirable side effects, he says. Kids are eating better, exercising more efficiently, and decreasing hostility.
Kids have to stand up and make some value judgments.
The group hopes to present its 2-year findings in May 1997 in Denver at the American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting. The 5-year project was funded by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Rockville, Maryland. The McGraw-Hill Companies.