Computer-based Prescription Opioid Abuse Prevention for Adolescents

The intervention focuses on individual skills factors (e.g., promoting accurate knowledge about risks), as well as peer and societal influences on prescription opioid abuse (e.g., training skills to refuse offers to misuse opioids). When accessing the program, users see pictures of youth who have been in treatment for opioid dependence, and may choose to click on links to: 1) listen to or read real stories of problematic involvement with prescription opioids, 2) view youth' trajectories of important decision points related to prescription opioid misuse, 3) view videos that provide key information or teaches a skill that might help a young person make healthier choices (e.g., refusing offers to misuse prescription opioids), 4) or take quizzes to assess information/skill acquisition.

The JustThinkTwice.com website is educational (a large percentage of the website content focuses on opioids) with a menu including: Drug Information, True Stories (of youth who have lost their lives to drugs), Consequences, Facts/Statistics, Videos (e.g., the Life of an Opiate Addict, and Synthetic Drugs), and a brief Quiz.