Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of the Parent-Child Assistance Program: a case management and home visiting program for people using substances during pregnancy.

Background: Perinatal substance use can have significant adverse effects on maternal and child health and family stability. Few interventions are specifically designed to address this significant public health problem. The Parent-Child Assistance Program (PCAP) is a 3-year case management and home-visiting intervention that seeks to help birthing persons with at-risk substance use during pregnancy to achieve and maintain substance use disorder recovery and avoid exposing future children to substances prenatally.

Exclusionary School Discipline and Delinquent Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis.

Excluding students from school remains a common form of punishment despite growing critique of the practice. A disparate research base has impeded the ability to make broader assessments on the association between exclusionary discipline (i.e.

Effects of state education requirements for substance use prevention.

We provide the first evidence on the effects of state laws requiring students to receive education about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs using data on over a million youths from the 1976-2010 Monitoring the Future study. In difference-in-differences and event-study models, we find robust evidence that these laws significantly reduced recent alcohol and marijuana use among high school seniors by 1.6-2.

State Education Standards for Tobacco Prevention and Classroom Instruction.

Objectives: We examine whether state educational standards regarding tobacco correspond with teacher reports of classroom instruction.

Methods: We test this relation with data on tobacco use prevention standards, reports of middle and high school teachers from the 2008 and 2010 School Health Profiles study, and logistic regression models.

Results: State education standards are significantly related to increased likelihood of a lead health education teacher in that state reporting that the specific topic was taught in the school.

State-level education standards for substance use prevention programs in schools: a systematic content analysis.

Purpose: Three fourths of public schools in the United States maintain instructional programs to discourage alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use. State-sanctioned instructional standards attempt to direct this ATOD preventive education. No existing research, however, systematically codes these standards across all grades and states.