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Multi-State "Best Friends" Program Addresses Risky Behaviors Among Teenage Girls

May 1, 2005 | Program Result

The Best Friends Foundation developed and implemented a youth development program for girls in grades 6 to 12 with the message that they should wait until marriage to begin sexual relations and abstain from drinking, smoking and using illegal drugs.

Why Women Smoke

March 1, 2000 | Program Result

Researchers at the University of Arizona, Tucson, contacted and re-interviewed young women who had participated in a 1990-92 longitudinal study on body image, dieting, and smoking.

Pilot Program of Research to Integrate Substance Abuse Issues into Mainstream Medicine (PRISM)

October 15, 2009 | Program Result

PRISM sought to encourage physicians and health care researchers to address the effects of alcohol and drug abuse on serious chronic illnesses.

Drugs, Sex, HIV: Programs Teach At-Risk Urban Girls How to Play it Safe

September 19, 2008 | Program Result

The Freedom Foundation of New Jersey Inc., West Orange, N.J., carried out three programs encouraging girls in inner-city Newark, N.J., to abstain from illegal drugs and sexual relations.

African-American Hairstylists Enlisted as Lay Health Promoters in Eight Michigan Cities

June 22, 2007 | Program Result

The National Kidney Foundation of Michigan expanded a project to train hair stylists in African-American neighborhoods as lay health promoters to educate their clients about diabetes, high blood pressure and kidney disease.

Sex and Intoxication More Common Among Women on Spring Break, According to AMA Poll

March 7, 2006 | News Release

Survey shows female college students drink more and often on spring break trips.

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