Cigarette smoking is widely regarded as the number one cause of mortality and morbidity in the United States. Research testing innovative smoking prevention strategies has demonstrated the effectiveness of teaching social resistance skills either alone or in combination with general personal and… More

A major public health need is to bridge the gap between the current state-of-the-art in tobacco, alcohol, and drug abuse prevention and commercially available curricula which are either unproven or known to be ineffective. this phase i effort will develop and test commercially viable tobacco,… More

Cigarette smoking is one of the most important public health problems facing America,accounting for an estimated 430,000 deaths per year. While considerable progress has been made inrecent years toward the development of effective smoking prevention approaches, those efforts havenot yet been… More

Not Available We propose to develop a very quiet precision landing system for the CVX carrier that is based upon an aircraft beacon emitting a low ERP FMCw waveform and a shipboard passive multibeam radar based on a low cost focal plane array technology. As part of an ongoing Navy Phase II SBIR,… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by investigator): This Phase II SBIR application requests 24-months of support for developing and testing CD-ROM materials for a state-of-the-art drug abuse prevention program called Life Skills Training (LST). LST is a school-based drug abuse prevention program targeting… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by investigator): This Phase II SBIR application requests 24-months of support for developing and testing CD-ROM materials for a state-of-the-art drug abuse prevention program called Life Skills Training (LST). LST is a school-based drug abuse prevention program targeting… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by investigator): This Phase I SBIR application requests 6-months of support for developing and testing CD-ROM materials for a state-of-the-art drug abuse prevention program called LifeSkills Training (LST). LST is a school-based drug abuse prevention program targeting… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Phase I SBIR application requests six months of funding to develop and evaluate a commercial-quality prevention curriculum for adolescents in workplace settings based on the theoretical foundation of a state-of-the-art substance abuse prevention program… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Phase II SBIR application requests 24 months of support for developing and testing CD-ROM materials for a state-of-the-art drug abuse prevention program called LifeSkills Training (LST). 1ST is a school-based drug abuse prevention program targeting students… More

ABSTRACT This Phase II SBIR application requests 36 months of support for the development and testing of a skill-based prevention program for career and technical education (CTE) students about to transition to full-time work. The program, LifeSkills Train ing Transition to Work (LST-TW), will… More

The overarching goal of this proposed SBIR project is to develop a sustainable distribution channel for the large-scale dissemination of evidence-based workplace drug prevention programs. The key components of the Web portal to be further developed and refined are informational resources about… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Phase I SBIR grant application requests six months of funding to develop and feasibility test an innovative Web-based distribution channel for increasing the dissemination, adoption, implementation, and sustainability (DAIS) of evidence-based substance use… More