Adolescent cognitive and emotional capacities still argue for interactive approaches to alcohol and drug education

The excellent paper by James McCambridge [1] documents in convincing detail an appalling bias against access to publication of findings contrary to prevailing conceptions of 'what works' in alcohol & drug (AoD) education for children & youth. This bias is the result of many factors: inadequate critical discourse among researchers, editorial preference for studies reporting positive findings, ideological bias associated with zero tolerance policy, uncritical acceptance of initial evaluations conducted by developers instead of independent outsiders & sponsoring governmental agencies ignoring methodological critiques of those initial evaluations plus failure to replicate those initial findings in later independent evaluations. n. References.