A growing number of European initiatives focusing on the evaluation an
d monitoring of substance abuse prevention is observed. At the beginni
ng of the 90s a team from the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in
Warsaw, Poland, began a project designed for the promotion of evaluat
ion in the field of substance abuse prevention. The project included o
utcome studies on popular school-based programs and development of tea
ching materials and publications to popularize the concept and methods
of evaluation. As results of the project several outcome studies were
completed, several scales for evaluating alcohol prevention programs
were developed, a number of articles and a handbook on evaluation were
published.