Drug Education Programs

«LS2»The purpose of this research is to examine drug-education programs with a view toward identifying the scope and limit of effectiveness of such programs. The plan of the research will be to set forth the context in which drug-education efforts have been undertaken, and then to discuss the utility of such efforts, with reference to specific educational materials.

The statistics on drug abuse in the U.S. and around the world must be disheartening to anyone who believes that there is a connection between drug use and the deterioration or destruction of the quality of life. "Overview of Drug Education and Prevention Programs," published between 1989 and 1992, states that although drug abuse appeared to have peaked in the late 1970s, that "cocaine use has actually risen since 1978 from 5.7 percent of high school seniors nationwide to 6.7 percent in 1985" (Overview, n.d., p. 1), and that an important part of the statistical increase can be attributed to drug use by high-school-age students. "Overview" says that drug use is a cyclical phenomenon, a fact confirmed by Holden's (1989) survey of American cocaine epidemics since 1900. The trend of increased and more intense drug use by young people that persisted through the 1980s appears to have continued into the 1990s. Indeed, in late 1992, the Parents Resource Institute for Drug education reported that despite claims by President Bush in debates with pres

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Drug Free!«MDNM», a recognition program that awards drug-free students as peer-group role models; and «MDUL»Californians for Drug-Free Youth, Inc«MDNM»., which sponsors an drug-abuse awareness campaign in the form of red ribbons symbolizing concern to reduce drug use among both children and adults. The missions of such drug-education programs overlap and converge, and of course their overarching goal--reducing and eliminating the pernicious consequences of drug use--is very much the same. At what might be called the clinical level, however, study and teaching about drugs take a variety of forms. Davis (1993) reports that a drug-education program sponsored by the Essex County, Virginia, Sheriff's Department has been successful in developing some rapport between juveniles and law enforcement, and that, based on arrest and incident reports, in that county there has been a decrease in drug use in that age group. Conner (1993) gives a favorable evaluation of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, a mass-media-based promotional campaign that takes what might be termed an in-your-face, high-production-values, no-nonsense approach to providing basic information regarding the consequences of drug use: «MDUL»This is your brain«MDNM», say
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