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The Midwestern Prevention Program (MPP) is an ongoing trial of a multi-component intervention—including a school-based social influence curriculum, a parent program, mass-media programming, community organization, and health policy change—designed to prevent drug and alcohol abuse among adolescents. In this article, we focus on the Indianapolis program site, and we address relationships between parental participation in the program and adolescent drug use. Components of the parent program included parent-child homework exercises linked to the curriculum, establishment of a parent program implementation committee at each school, implementation of parenting skills training by researcher-trained parent committee members, and participation in community-wide drug abuse prevention meetings. The analysis sample included 1,001 students who partidpated in the school-based social influence curriculum and completed self-report questionnaires at baseline and 18-month follow-up and whose parents completed a mailed par...
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