Following are needs and recommendations related to prevention and education programs, based on the previous guiding principles:

• Address methamphetamine through broad-based drug prevention and education efforts that target all forms of drug use and that are based on research and established prevention principles.
  
• Develop science-based prevention program planning and intervention guidelines in communities where methamphetamine is already a problem.
  
• Involve the entire community in prevention efforts, including educators, youths, parents, vendors of the materials used in the manufacture of methamphetamine, law enforcement officials, business leaders, members of the faith community, social services providers, and representatives of other government agencies and organizations.
  
• Identify the changing population characteristics of users, their motivations, risk factors, and demographics.
  
• Involve parents and other adults in prevention and education programs for youths, particularly in the areas of monitoring for latchkey status children, enhancing parent-child communication skills, and providing consistent family/home rules for youths' behavior and leisure time activities.
  
• Ensure that media campaigns proceed with caution, focusing on raising awareness of methamphetamine using messages designed to minimize unintended effects, such as arousing curiosity about methamphetamine.
  
• Develop or augment programs aimed at educating those communities in which methamphetamine is an emerging or chronic problem.

Research Priorities:
Following are the priorities for research initiatives to raise knowledge about prevention and education strategies:

• Examine existing methamphetamine prevention and education strategies that are included in broad prevention programs targeting all forms of drug use and determine the extent to which they have been effective.
  
• Support research on the initiation to methamphetamine use as well as the progression of use leading to addiction.
  
• Collect additional data on the extent of methamphetamine use, focusing on a number of areas (e.g., adolescent use, prevalence in rural and tribal areas) and continue to develop and build on existing databases, making them more sensitive to local communities.