Thursday, January 7, 2010

Role Of Schools In Drug Abuse Prevention

Education for drug abuse prevention in schools can be explained as the educational programs, policies, procedures and other experiences that helps in the achievement of extensive health goals of preventing drug use and abuse.

Students generally respond positively to a school environment comprising the culture, background, ideology, sense of kinship, goals and a sense of harmony in which they can feel that they are treated honestly. Students have benefit when school is purposeful and when schools are clear on what students should know and do.

It is simple, and desirable, for schools to be involved with drug demand reduction, drug supply reduction and reducing the health and social consequences of drug use, and with the major concentration on demand reduction.

Schools can also be able to effect drug use behavior and they are expected to do it. The main role of the school is to teach skills, to provide knowledge and to establish good values in relation to health and drug use and not to change behaviors that can be influenced by factors that can be beyond the school. Educational programs for the prevention of drug abuse should consist of drug use among individuals and in society, risk and protective factors, gender, ethnicity, culture, language, developmental level, ability level, religion and sexual adjustment.

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