Adolescent drug use in America is a cause for concern. Adolescent drug use contributes to deaths, motor vehicle accidents, poor judgment, unsafe sexual behavior, and other risky behaviors. According to the authors (2003), "school drug prevention programs are a critical part of the antidrug effort, but only 9% of school districts use programs that have been shown to be effective through rigorous research (p 1830). » The Ministry of Education has set one of the guidelines of its Safe and Prohibition of Drugs in Schools and Communities Act program: the implementation of prevention activities based solely on data conclusive. They also described 7 drug prevention programs as exemplary; 5 of them included a school program aimed at middle school students. Project ALERT is one of the most effective evidence-based programs that seeks to motivate students against drug use and provide them with the skills to resist such behavior. The authors suggested that the program's effectiveness could be improved if it focused on reducing alcohol abuse, involved parents in the prevention program, and implemented a way to help already smoking smokers. activity. The authors revised the ALERT project program and conducted a randomized trial in the South. Dakota schools in urban, small town, and rural areas from fall 1997 to spring 1999. Project ALERT used three theories of behavior change. The study was based on the social influence prevention model. Project ALERT used the Health Belief Model, which targeted cognitive factors that influence healthy behavior. Secondly, the social learning model, which emphasizes social norms as key components of behavior and finally the self-efficacy theory of behavior change which focuses on...... middle from the article ...... drug use; to help them identify and resist pro-drug pressures from parents, peers, the media, and others, and to develop resistance self-efficacy, the belief that once can successfully resist pro-drug influences. (p. 1831) The Health Belief Model constructs: perceived susceptibility, perceived seriousness, call to action, and self-efficacy were used in the revised Project ALERT curriculum. Although the authors used more than one theory in this article, they made good use of the Health Belief Model. Adolescents' interviews with parents about their experiences and responses to peer pressure, as well as video messages from adolescents talking about their experiences with smoking and how they quit, are clues to action for students to re-evaluate their drug use. I would have used this theory if I wanted to run a drug prevention program because it seeks to motivate healthy behavior..