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Keepin’it REAL

Keepin'it REAL

The adolescent drug use is one of the most important problems in current societies. In Spain, several intervention strategies are being carried out in order to reduce the substance use among young people, especially the consumption of alcohol and cannabis, which every year begins at earlier ages. In this context, the UNDERISK group carried out a pilot study of the Keepin’it REAL programme for the prevention of drug use in Galicia, a programme that was previously developed and evaluated by the University of Arizona (United States) in different countries.

Mantente REAL es un programa para evitar el uso de drogas y otros comportamientos problemáticos en la adolescencia que se centra en el desarrollo de habilidades personales y sociales. Al participar, los/as estudiantes adquieren habilidades concretas de resistencia a la presión social para consumir drogas o participar en otros comportamientos antisociales. El objetivo principal del programa es enseñar a los/as estudiantes a decir NO a ofertas de sustancias como el alcohol, el tabaco y otras drogas de una manera práctica y sencilla, utilizando estrategias representadas por el acrónimo REAL:

Reject, Explain, Avoid and Leave.

TheGlobal Center for Applied Health Research at the University of Arizona (ASU) website contains all the information about the Keepin’it REAL programme and its adaptations to different cultural contexts.

https://globalappliedhealth.asu.edu/

First report on the pilot study in Spain