Rated Effectiveness of Antidrug Letters by Drug Users and Nonusers

Summary

As part of each of several drug surveys conducted in Ohio high schools, the second-named author of this report and his survey colleagues asked each respondent to write an antidrug letter. Later, they had those letters judged on persuasiveness and, on that variable (for 12th graders), found no significant difference between letters written by drug users (N = 70) and letters written by nonusers (N = 174).