This is a school program to prevent drug abuse among adolescents. The intervention is carried out in the classroom over a period of two to three months, addressing six aspects:
1) Communication competence and its ethnic variations;
2) Narrative-based knowledge to improve identification with the prevention message;
3) Different types of social norms (personal, insulting, and descriptive) as motivators in substance use;
4) Training in social life skills and their fundamental role in risk assessment and decision-making;
5) Drug resistance strategies most commonly and effectively used by adolescents;
6) The local social context.
Different Mexican-American, non-Latino, and multicultural versions were developed so that students could recognize themselves in the prevention message and see solutions sensitive to their specific cultural environments.