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Scientists designed a community and adolescent based plot prevention program in Phoenix area. They aimed to reach non-academia people and middle school teenagers specifically. This program is called Drug Resistance Strategies Project, DRS. The designers of the program meant to challenge their formal research means and practiced narrative strategie. According to this method, students interviewed with other students asking "Who, what, where, when, and how." The goal was to disclose the reasons underneath the drug and alcohol use and eventually persuade the adolescents to be able to say no to drug or alcohol offer without putting in danger his or her relationship with own friends. The collected data was organized and transformed to narratives and later on they were staged. The main characters of this process were young teenagers since DRS organizers thought that it could be easier to reach the students without adult presence. The outcome of the program was a big success. After sixteen months of trial, the researchers three posttests to check the changes in pretesets. The data showed that the program was influential to reduce alcohol and marijuna use particularly. In a short time DRS was practiced across USA. SAMSHA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) chose DRS as a "model program." Additionally, DRS was selected to be used in as a clinical trial in 35 middle schools. Furthermore, the designers of DRS started to disseminate their sources by website.