The information is intended to help teachers, principles, and other determine how to spend prevention funds. The document assesses the extent to which curricula address the elements that are crucial to successful prevention teaching. These include helping students recognize how internal and external pressures influence them to use drugs, developing personal and social skills to resist pressures, teaching that alcohol and drug use are not the norm among teenagers, and providing developmentally appropriate materials and activities. Other elements include interactive teaching techniques, at least 10 sessions per year, active family and community involvement, teacher training and support, and easily usable material. The programs are grouped into four categories: comprehensive health programs, programs for kindergarten through 12th grade, elementary and middle school programs, and middle and high school programs. Charts providing basic information and ratings for each program, program addresses and telephone numbers, index, and reference lists