The local high school has a program that attempts to provide teens with strategies to cope with peer pressures to drink and use drugs. This approach would be characteristic of
A) campaigning.
B) public health approach.
C) drug education.
D) secondary prevention.
E) tertiary prevention.

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This program is attempting to prevent substance use by providing strategies to cope with peer pressures. This fits within the public health approach, which focuses on preventing problems before they occur rather than just treating them after they happen. The other options (campaigning, drug education, secondary prevention, and tertiary prevention) may also involve prevention efforts, but they don't necessarily focus on providing coping strategies to prevent substance use.

The Local High School Has a Program That Attempts to Provide