Drug and Alcohol Findings has this analysis of some American research:
A sophisticated reanalysis of data from the US Adolescent Alcohol Prevention Trial has confirmed that growth in drinking is held back by school lessons based on correcting “normative beliefs” about how common substance use is among peers of similar age.
You can read the abstract of the research which says:
Data regarding cigarette and alcohol use were collected over a 5-year period, grade 7 to grade 11. Students receiving the normative education program had significantly lower average levels of reported cigarette and alcohol use, lower rates of growth for reported cigarette and alcohol use, and less deceleration of reported levels of cigarette and alcohol use as compared with the control group.
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[...] I can’t say, but perhaps they reference the SHARHP research from Australia or the impact of normative education in the United States. Maybe the story mentions the European research which seems to offer some [...]
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