The Fast Track intervention's impact on behaviors of despair in adolescence and young adulthood.

ABSTRACT: How to mitigate the dramatic increase in the number of self-inflicted deaths from suicide, alcohol-related liver disease, and drug overdose among young adults has become a critical public health question. A promising area of study looks at interventions designed to address risk factors for the behaviors that precede these -often denoted-"deaths of despair." This paper examines whether a childhood intervention can have persistent positive effects by reducing adolescent and young adulthood (age 25) behaviors that precede these deaths, including suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, hazardous drinking, and opioid use. These analyses test the impact and mechanisms of action of Fast Track (FT), a comprehensive childhood intervention designed to decrease aggression and delinquency in at-risk kind

SUBMITTER: Godwin JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7749361 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature