Key Elements of Effective Drug Prevention Curricula
(Adapted from Making the Grade: A Guide to School Drug Prevention Programs, Drug Strategies, 1999, p. 2. Used with permission.)
Extensive research suggests that the following are key elements of successful prevention curricula. Such curricula:
(1) Helps students recognize internal pressures, like wanting to belong to the group, and external pressures, like peer attitudes and advertising, that influence them to use alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
(2) Facilitates development of personal, social and refusal skills to resist these pressures.
(3) Teaches that using, alcohol, tobacco and other drugs is not the norm among teenagers, correcting the misconception that “everyone is doing it,” and promotes positive norms through bonding to school and constructive role models.
(4) Provides developmentally appropriate material and activities, including information about the short-term effects and long-term consequences of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
(5) Uses interactive teaching techniques, such as role plays, discussions, brainstorming and cooperative learning.
(6) Covers necessary prevention elements in at least eight well-designed sessions a year (with a minimum of three to five booster sessions in one or more succeeding years).
(7) Actively involves the family and the community, so that prevention strategies are reinforced across settings.
(8) Includes teacher training and support, in order to assure that curricula are delivered as intended.
(9) Contains material that is easy for teachers to implement and culturally relevant for students.
I think this is a nice
I think this is a nice informative topic,but what are you going to do when you can't prevent drug addiction or abuse anymore?i think that not many people know a good drug rehab center in this country.I can,instead,tell you a really professional and warm place where you go in case you want to quit addiction by following a radical treatment.My mother has been to such a place and if you are interested in any way about this,there is even a website especially made for people to find the place easier.
Students are very vulnerable
Students are very vulnerable to drugs, many of them start their drug life at this age. We can all see the main reasons for this: they are young and willing to risk, they have a proper environment where drugs are easy to get, they have problems and difficulties that push them towards drugs and the list is much longer than this. We need more practical strategies, we need live examples to prove that drugs don't worth it. I think inviting a drug rehab team for a teaching course would be much more relevant for this matter.
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