A Realistic Approach to Drugs Education in Schools

Abstract

Summarizes recent research showing the widespread experimentation with drugs by children of school age. Examines what the goals of drugs education in schools should be, and cites straightforward drugs prevention work as one of these. States that it is nevertheless impossible to ignore the level of drug use among school‐age young people and urges that drugs education should include information on safer drug use. Concludes that young people are also young citizens who have a right to information which affects their lives.

Citation

Goodman, M. (1994), "A Realistic Approach to Drugs Education in Schools", Health Education, Vol. 94 No. 5, pp. 27-28. https://doi.org/10.1108/09654289410069610