PROSPER Community-University Partnership Delivery System Effects on Substance Misuse
Submitted by Mike Ashton
- 10 January 2018
Evaluated prevention programmes are typically implemented by research teams, raising questions over real-world applicability, but a groundbreaking US trial is said to have produced a ‘robust’ demonstration of the potential of a system in which communities take the lead. Our detailed analysis suggests ‘robust’ is an adjective too far, and explains methodological concerns common to many prevention trials.
