The Principles for School Drug Education provide a framework of core concepts and values to support effective drug education practice within schools. They are intended to guide school …
Get It Straight! is designed to help you expose common myths about drugs and learn the truth behind the myths – in short, to “get it straight.” This Student Guide will help you understand the …
Despite these advances, many people today do not understand why people become addicted to drugs or how drugs change the brain to foster compulsive drug use. This booklet aims to fill …
Education plays a critical role in preventing substance abuse. Drugs of Abuse, A DEA Resource Guide, is designed to be a reliable resource on the most commonly abused and misused …
health effects of drug abuse. Together with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), we’ve put together this 16-page book of reproducibles, full of facts and activities on drugs of abuse. This …
Administration and U.S. Department of Education, Growing Up Drug Free: A Parent’s Guide to Prevention, Washington, D.C., 2017. Copies of this publication are available online at the DEA …
drug abuse patterns and any co-occurring medical, psychiatric, and social problems can lead to sustained recovery and a life without drug abuse. Similar to other chronic, relapsing diseases, …
Life Skills-based drug education must balance the provision of information with the opportunity to develop values and skills in young people to enable healthy development, to cope with their …
According to the 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), eight percent of Americans aged 12 or older used an illicit substance in the past 30 days. However, for young …
school-based education for drug abuse prevention For some decades now students have been given lessons about drugs in school in the belief that education about drugs can change their …