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KIDS DRUG EDUCATION/PREVENTION

My cites. Enforcement of Drug policy.

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A study(18 ) discovered that substance abuse education/treatment programs actually implemented in boot camp facilities are not likely to result in the rehabilitation of boot camp participants. These five improvement were suggested:

  • Facility-specific programming and greater use of the therapeutic community models approaches.
  • Individualized treatment programming.
  • Use of qualified professional substance abuse treatment personnel
  • After care programs that link the imprisonment and community release phases of the boot camp sanctions
  • Evaluation to determine the effectiveness of treatment strategies

Researchers looked into many aspects of drug education(19 ).
They asked what students though would work.

  • A desire for more complete drug information, delivered through a different educational process.
  • More Panels and talks by those who have been through both substance use and substance abuse.
    secondary finding include
  • A minim number of focus groups wanted more harmful consequences to be taught (1/40[.25 percent]) because of their small numbers, they are further discussed.
  • percent of high school focus groups mentioned that they wanted harm reduction programs,smaller groups rather than assemblies, and more counseling.
    This is not to argue for promoting substance use. Rather, it is to argue for the end of labeling, for being "at risk for substance abuse," which as we have seen, has detrimental effects.
    Based on this study's findings and available research we make the following recommendations
1. Provide a developmentally appropriate set of prevention programs at all grade levels.
2. Discontinue primarily harmful consequences educational services.
3. Without condoning substance use, Shift to a harm reduction approach similar to that used
When delivering AIDS education.
A. Provide young people with factual information about drugs.
B. Help them examine their own attitudes about drugs, and drug user's.
C. Help them to understand people who experience drug problems and foster a caring attitude.
D. Help them avoid harmful the harmful consequences of drug use by explaining secondary prevention strategies.
E. Rise awareness of the legal, health and social implications of their own drug use.
F. Help them to understand the role of drug use in past and present societies and cultures.
4. Recruit outside drug educators to provide confidential educational services.
5. If "at" and "high" risk youth cannot be fully assisted, discontinued the use of the model.
6. Do not purge students in need of help from the educational system.
7. Bolster counseling services.
Drug education myths
1. Adolescents are naive: On the contrary, they are sophisticated individuals capable of making sophisticated decisions.
2. Any adolescent substance use is deviant: Putting legalities, and politics aside, because they mayexperiment withsubstances, adolescents are not inherently deviant.
3. Most adolescents go on to become substance abusers "abusers": In fact up to 70 percent of students in the highest risk conditions do not go on to become substance abusers.

How can parents hope to keep kids off drugs? "Monitoring is the key factor," said Grace M Barnes, Phd., a senior research scientist at RIA. "monitoring means knowing where your kids are, who their friends are, when they are coming in, and so on. We found that it's important for all adolescents and especially for the older kids. Parents might think that when the kids get older they don't need as much supervision but they do(20 ). Another study showed, attempting to control teenagers through psychical discipline not effective(21 ).

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