This document discusses evidence-based approaches to minimize health disparities among teenagers related to drug and alcohol addiction. It identifies competence enhancement, family-based prevention, and community-based prevention as key approaches. Competence enhancement equips teenagers with skills to resist drugs, family-based prevention gives parents tips to handle teenagers, and community-based prevention creates awareness of dangers through community leaders and parents. Additional approaches discussed are normative education, social resistance skills training, and school-based prevention programs.

1. Drug And Alcohol Addiction
Among Teenagers (USA)
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2. Evidence Based Approaches To Optimize Health
For Teenagers Cont…
 Normative education.
 Social resistance skills.
 School based prevention.

3. Evidence Based Approaches To
Optimize Health For Teenagers
 Competence-Enhancement.
 Family-Based Prevention
 Community-Based Prevention

4. How The Approaches Minimize Health Disparities
Among The Teens Cont…
 Competence enhancement- The program equips teenagers with adequate skills which
they can utilize in resisting drugs and taking alcohol.
 Family based prevention- The parents are given tips on how to handle their teen
children’s hence minimizing the risk associated with drug abuse.
 Community based prevention- The community inclusive of parents and other leaders
can create awareness to teens and make them know the dangers associated with abuse
of drugs and alcohol.

5. How The Approaches Minimize Health Disparities
Among The Teens
 Normative education- Educating the teens on the negative impacts of drugs may lower
the rate at which they abuse drugs and hence lower their exposure to health disparities.
 Social resistance skills- Equipping teens with adequate resistance skills can reduce the
likelihood of being influenced by their peers.
 School based prevention- When schools incorporate programmes aimed at reducing
drug abuse, teens are likely to reduce the rate at which they take drugs gradually meaning
that they won't be exposed to health disparities fully.

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