ABSTRACT Drug Outreach, Promoting Awareness (DOPA) is an undergraduate outreach program for local high school students designed to convey the neurobiological basis, risks, and addictive potential of commonly abused drugs. Here we describe DOPA and evaluate the program, including its impact on high school student attitudes about drug harm risk and addiction. Undergraduate neuroscience students versed in the neurobiology, physiology, and policy of drugs are trained in active learning methods, enabling them to create engaging and interactive classroom‐based educational materials. Survey results showed that participation in DOPA increased high school student perceptions of the addictive potential and harm risk of drugs, which studies have shown to be inversely correlated with drug‐taking. High school students also responded positively to the interactive nature of the program. These findings demonstrate how extensively trained undergraduates who are close peers to high school students can effectively lead science outreach initiatives and shift adolescent attitudes about drugs.

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本科生主导的神经科学外展计划显示出改变青少年对毒品态度的希望

摘要 药物外展，提高意识 (DOPA) 是一项针对当地高中生的本科外展计划，旨在传达常见滥用药物的神经生物学基础、风险和成瘾潜力。在这里，我们描述了 DOPA 并评估了该计划，包括它对高中生对药物危害风险和成瘾的态度的影响。精通神经生物学、生理学和药物政策的本科神经科学学生接受主动学习方法的培训，使他们能够创建引人入胜的交互式课堂教育材料。调查结果表明，参与 DOPA 增加了高中生对药物成瘾潜力和危害风险的看法，研究表明这与吸毒成反比。高中生也对该计划的互动性做出了积极响应。这些发现表明，与高中生关系密切的受过广泛训练的本科生如何有效地领导科学推广计划并改变青少年对毒品的态度。