摘要：The
Cochrane Collaboration is an international no-profit organization established in 1992 in UK. The aim of the
Collaboration is the conduction, update and dissemination of systematic reviews about health care. Systematic
reviews are electronic documents systematically updated which synthetise the results of randomized
controlled studies about treatments. The Cochrane Group on Drugs and Alcohol has the editorial base in Rome
(Department of Epidemiology ASL RME) where the Coordinator, the Coordinating Editor and the Trial Search
Coordinator, coordinate the work of seven editors based in several countries. As of April 2003 we published
17 reviews and 11 protocols of review. The systematic reviews on primary prevention for alcohol misuse in
young people, was conducted by David Foxcroft and published by the group in 2002. The objectives of the
systematic review were the identification and synthesis of the studies on psychosocial and educational
programs for prevention of alcohol abuse and the assessment of long term interventions (over three years).
