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From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News:
Middle-school students in rural areas who attended prevention programs aimed at methamphetamine use were less likely to use the drug when they got older, according to research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

Researchers examined outcomes from a group of Iowa families who attended one of two prevention programs when the children were in 6th grade, comparing their later methamphetamine use to a control group whose members did not attend the prevention sessions.

"We now have evidence that prevention programs can be important tools to protect adolescents from the devastating effects of methamphetamine use, and we will continue to explore the effectiveness of other drug-abuse prevention programs," said Elias A. Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health.

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