Two- and three-year follow-up from a gender-specific, web-based drug abuse prevention program for adolescent girls.

Introduction: Rates of drug use among early adolescent girls meet or exceed rates of their male counterparts. Girls are also vulnerable to differential risk factors for drug use. Yet, expressly designed prevention programs targeting this population are absent.

Developing a Web-Based Intervention to Prevent Drug Use among Adolescent Girls.

Objectives: Girls' rates of drug use have met up with, and in some instances, surpassed boys' use. Though girls and boys share risk and protective factors associated with drug use, girls also have gender-specific risks. Interventions to prevent girls' drug use must be tailored to address the dynamics of female adolescence.

Preventing drug use among sexual-minority youths: findings from a tailored, web-based intervention.

Purpose: Rates of drug use among sexual-minority youths are disproportionately high. Yet, expressly designed prevention programs targeting this population are absent. This study developed and tested a web-based drug abuse prevention program for sexual-minority youths.