The prevention of alcohol use by rural youth.

Little is known about preventing alcohol use by youth in rural America. Because most studies of teenage drinking and related prevention programs have been conducted in metropolitan areas, the word "rural" is relatively rare in the extensive alcohol prevention literature. Although descriptions of rural programs can be found, like the rural population itself, these are sparse, scattered, and heterogeneous. Almost no rural alcohol use prevention programs have been evaluated (Wargo et al. 1990).