The Second Evaluation of the Curricular Program “Hashish and Marihuana” in Israeli High Schools

The purpose of this article is to describe the impact of the revised preventive interdisciplinary auricular program “Hashish and Marihuana” on attitudes and intentions towards hashish use among high school students in Israel. The redesigned curriculum, implemented by trained teachers, produces statistically significant attitude gains. The findings suggest that the program has a potential for a desired attitudinal modification within the target population, and that the contemporary “fourth generation” of preventive programs in drug education remain an effective prevention strategy. As the result of the evaluation research, the program will be officially disseminated to high schools during 1987–1988 by the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture in collaboration with Haifa University.