Abstract
Drug abuse prevention in the school: four years follow-up of a program. In this work the results obtained on applying a drug abuse prevention program are displayed. This pr ogram is an adaptation of G. J. Botvin's "life skills tr aining" program. This study was carried out in five Galician high school. The initial sample was composed of 1029 teenagers, distributed in three experimental conditions, one of control and two of treatment, in which the program was applied by the c hildren's teachers or the investigation team member s. In this paper the results about the drugs use for four years are displayed. The results obtained show how under treatment conditions a lower tobbaco and alcohol use is produced after a year of follow-up. In later evaluations, these effects are reduced, but important differences about the use of other drugs such as cannabis, tranquilizers or amphetamimes appear.
