Research has addressed the consequences of being a victim of physical and relational
aggression but less so the consequences of being an aggressor during adolescence …

Objective: Harm-minimization policies suggest that alcohol use is a part of normal
adolescent development and that parents should supervise their children's use to …

Aims: Risky drinking among young people is an issue of public concern globally. In Australia
and elsewhere, there has been a steady increase in alcohol-related harms among young …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND This article examines the effect of early adolescent alcohol use
on mid‐adolescent school suspension, truancy, commitment, and academic failure in …

Objectives. We examined the longitudinal effect of schools' drug policies on student
marijuana use. Methods. We used data from the International Youth Development Study …

Background: Schools use a number of measures to reduce harmful tobacco, alcohol, and
drug use by students. One important component is the school's drug policy, which serves to …

Recognizing there have been few methodologically rigorous cross-national studies of youth
alcohol and drug behaviour, state student samples were compared in Australia and the …

Purpose There has been growing interest in reserving punishment as a last resort to
address substance use in schools. However, there is significant variability in adoption of …

This paper measures tobacco polices in statewide representative samples of secondary and
mixed schools in Victoria, Australia and Washington, US (N= 3,466 students from 285 …

Although it is common for secondary schools to implement alcohol policies to reduce alcohol
misuse, there has been little evaluation of the efficacy of these policies. The purpose of this …