Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse
All of the pessimism (&quot;This only worked because Iceland is so small&#x2F;white&#x2F;etc, it would never work in the US&quot;) in this thread baffles me.  Are there a lot of other wildly successful approaches we should try first?  Did you not read the bits about the Icelandic approach working well in other cities?<p>If anything, it sounds like the lesson here is that what worked so well is not just the approach, it&#x27;s the implementation.  (It&#x27;s not like &quot;build a sports facility&quot; or &quot;pass a curfew&quot; or &quot;encourage parents to spend more time with their kids&quot; haven&#x27;t been tried in the US)  What I took home is that those same approaches which have had limited success when done on a small scale work a lot better when they&#x27;re well-funded and taken seriously and used consistently for a long time.