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 executive, teachers and staff, as well as families, community agencies and other stakeholders,
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 harmful effects of these types of drugs on your health.
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 that knowledge gap by providing scientific information about the disease of drug
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 drugs in the United States. This comprehensive guide provides important information about the harms and consequences of
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 book is just one component of our ongoing drug education program, “Heads Up: Real News About Drugs and Your Body,” a partnership between NIDA and
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 website for parents, educators, and caregivers at
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, such as diabetes, asthma, or heart disease, drug addiction can be managed successfully. And as with other chronic diseases, it is not
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 problems,
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 adults aged 18 to 25, approximately 24
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 behaviour. This publication discusses basic principles upon which policy makers, school administrators and