About 16 million people live in areas covered by the DPI's 12 drug prevention teams, and these teams work in active partnership with all sections of the community. The aim of DPI is to gather high-quality information about drug prevention by grouping projects from different team areas so that experience from different parts of the country feeds into a corporate learning process. The DPI addresses four main areas of action: young people, communities, parents, and the criminal justice system. The progress of DPI during 1996-1997 is reviewed, findings from projects are summarized, and lessons learned from the projects for policy and practice are identified. The focus is on drug education in schools, information campaigns, peer approaches, high-risk interventions, community involvement, racial and cultural diversity, rural communities, drug prevention training, parental involvement, and criminal justice system interventions. 37 photographs