Episode #119 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction with Dr. Karl Hill on Prevention Science

Episode 119 March 27, 2023 01:10:07
Episode #119 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction with Dr. Karl Hill on Prevention Science
High Truths on Drugs and Addiction
Episode #119 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction with Dr. Karl Hill on Prevention Science

Mar 27 2023 | 01:10:07

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Show Notes

Dr. Karl Hill directs the Prevention Science Program and is a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder, and is co-director of the prevention registry, Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development. Over the last thirty years he has focused on two key questions:  What are optimal family, peer, school and community environments that encourage healthy youth and adult development?  And How do we work with communities to make this happen?  In addition, he has focused on developing and testing interventions to shape these outcomes, and on working with communities to improve youth development and to break intergenerational cycles of problem behaviorincluding addiction and crime.

Institute of Behavioral Science Outcomes of Childhood Prevention Intervention Across 2 Generations - JAMA Article   

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