“Apprentis Chercheurs” in Drugs Disorders: A New Concept in Prevention Strategy

Bertrand Nalpas^1,2, Jérémie Cordonnier³, Morgane Le Bras^3,4, Dominique Donnet-Kamel¹

¹Department of Scientific Information and Communication, Scientific Mediation Office Inserm, Paris, France.
²Addiction Treatment Unit, Hôpital Caremeau, Nîmes, France.
³Association Arbre des Connaissances, Institut Universitaire d’Hématologie, Paris, France.
³Inserm U944-CNRS UMR 7212, Institut Universitaire d’Hématologie—Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris, France.

DOI: 10.4236/ce.2014.521205                

Abstract

We report a new strategy based on scientific education for sensitizing teenagers to the addiction-related harms. This strategy is diverted from a program called “Apprentis Chercheurs”. Pairs of young adolescents are welcome in research laboratories working on addiction all along the school year. They are fully integrated in the research team and directly participate to the experiments under the supervision of a senior researcher. At the end of the school year, they orally communicate their results to other students of their schools, their teachers, their parents and the research team in a peer-to-peer approach during a scientific conference organized within every participant research center.

Keywords

Scientific Education, Addiction, Prevention

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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