LST-Lst: Drug Prevention Programs In High Schools

There is no doubt that there is a prevalence of substance abuse throughout several age groups. To a certain extent, a society is faced with the reality of controlling substance abuse. Or allow it run rampant throughout the community. Often times, we hear and read about the level of substance abuse among teen, young adults and mid-aged

Children, starting as early as elementary school, are being educated on substance abuse. As of 2013, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, D.A.R.E., administers a school-based substance abuse, gang, and violence prevention program in 75 percent of the United States school districts. Since 1983, 70,000 police officers have taught the D.A.R.E. program to approximately 114 million elementary through high school students in the United States alone ("Is the D.A.R.E. Program Good for America's Kids K-12?"). This program is aimed at preventing drug use in elementary, middle, and high school students. A needle-exchange program implicitly encourages the exact opposite message, condoning immoral and illicit behavior. Governments should focus on discouraging drug use, providing more productive treatment for recovery, and punishing drug users instead of supplying the materials to continue their addiction. Young children have the potential to take more risks and must receive a clear message on drugs, which should coincide with the no tolerance policy they are being taught in school with implementation of the D.A.R.E. program. A needle-exchange program is more of a hopeful harm reduction campaign that sends the wrong message to young children and society as a whole. If there is to be a positive change in America regarding intravenous drug use, then the government and school programs all need to be on the same page; we

Understanding how to persuade people to not abuse drugs is not always simple. Teaching people to be abstinent is hard to do because you do not know what people are really going to listen to you after the prevention program has ended. When you are learning about drug prevention as a teen it can be hard

There are many different programs that are established to keep individuals from initially using drugs. Many of these prevention programs target juveniles. Most people first experiment drugs in their adolescence years. Many prevention programs cover ranges of approaches and issues. These ranges and approaches include the dissemination of factual information about drugs and their consequences, the building of self-esteem, taking responsibility for making choices, and learning how to handle peer pressure. Many people believe that drug use is a cause or contributor to criminal activity. Drug prevention and treatment programs may be effective at limiting or eliminating other crime.

The talk of substance abuse has been a long and serious one. With an over stimulated society, it is not uncommon to see the countless reports and hear the chatter among peers expressing concern about the “drug epidemic.” With how prevalent the talk of drugs are it starts to influence younger and younger crowds. Especially young adults. With the ever changing times, young adults are becoming more and more open to the world around them. However, with the spiraling numbers of substance abuse among young adults, it is time for outside intervention. The main way to rectify this growing issue is to understand what these substances are, the staggering statistics within correlation to them, and what measures can be taken to help those currently

The Drug Abuse Resistance Education program known as D.A.R.E has become a very widespread and popular program throughout the United States. The program appeals to all ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic lines, which is a large part of the reason why the DARE program has grown exponentially. The program’s basic premise was meant to introduce kids to the danger of drugs, before the drugs got to them. The implementation of the DARE program appeared to be what America needed to begin to put a dent in the war on drugs.

Executive Summary America’s most popular anti-drug program D.A.R.E. has created an uproar. The D.A.R.E. program had many issues the main one being its ineffectiveness. How could the most widely used drug prevention program in the United States be deemed ineffective? What went wrong? “The prevention of drug abuse is an especially salient topic for school psychologists and other educational professionals. Schools are the primary setting for providing education and information aimed at the prevention of drug abuse. Previous meta-analyses” (Ennett, et al., 1994; West & O 'Neal, 2004) indicate that one of the nation 's most popular drug prevention programs, the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program (D.A.R.E.), was not effective in reducing illicit drug use among youths. Current evaluations have produced an array of evidence showing the effectiveness of the new D.A.R.E. curriculum. Future studies must be conducted to determine if this new curriculum is effective. This analysis will show how this once prosperous program has proven to be so ineffective the D.A.R.E. program ranges from $1 billion to more than $2 billion annually. Despite questions about whether DARE works, it appears the cost will go up by millions even as the program is retooled. the following analysis would include a meta-analysis on why the program was so ineffective what could have been done.

As a group, we decided we wanted to incorporate the preventive strategies listed in the health promotion textbook because it is essential for people to understand. The question is how can we prevent drug and alcohol abuse? It starts with primary prevention which is defined as “prevention for those who have not used tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs. The goal is to prevent exposure to and experimenting with drugs.” (Maville & Huerta, 401). The textbook presents information about how many programs in school are taught from any early age to keep young people away from drugs and alcohol. (Maville & Huerta, 401).This prevention strategy is targeting the kids who have never tried any drug, and the goal is to keep it that way. Secondary prevention

The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) was created by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to aid in the declination of illicit drugs within the United States. The ONDCP advises the president on drug-control issues, coordinates drug-control activities and related funding across the Federal government, and produces the National Drug Control Strategy. Within the National Drug Control Strategy, several goals of the ONDCP are projected. Specifically, this strategy illuminates seven core goals. The goals are to prevent drug use in communities; seek early intervention opportunities in health care; integrate treatment for substance use disorder into health care and supporting recovery; break the cycle of drug use, crime, and incarceration; disrupt domestic drug trafficking and production; strengthen international partnerships; and improve information systems to better address drug use and its consequences. The purpose behind these core goals are to aid in the reduction of substance abuse at an individualistic level so that society can deviate away from illicit drugs as a whole. One prevention mechanism the ONDCP employ is knowledge. More finely, the development and distribution of information on youth drug, alcohol, and tobacco use. Examples of such information can occur by supporting substance abuse prevention on college campuses, expanding research on understudied substances, or preparing reports on health risks of youth substance use. This prevention tactic is successful

There are risk factors that have been identified to put adolescents at risk for drug use. What can we do as a community to aid in the awareness of substance abuse and reduce risk factors? A prevention program can be a valuable tool. One of the goals of a community prevention program is to minimize their risk factors and increase its protective factors. Development of anti-drug policies in schools and in the workplace are examples of protective factors that the community would benefit from.

Spraying crops, seizing shipments and arresting dealers can drive up prices and create temporary shortages. But it does not stop drug use. Addicts simply pay more for crummier product or switch to other, often more harmful, substances.”(“In America, Lessons Learned”) This is a quote from an article published in 2009 by the Economist; “Drug Education in America, lessons learned” discusses the failures and shortcomings of past present attempts of educating the youth about psychoactive drug use. It is a must to examine where most of the students in the United States, especially if from the United States, received their formal education on the dangers of psychoactive drug use and the effectiveness of it. Until recently the most prominent and widely used approach to educating the youth about the dangers and risks associated with psychoactive drug use was the use of the program D.A.R.E., or Drug Abuse Resistance Education. Drugs Abuse Resistance Education was first developed and implement in Los Angeles, California in 1983 and spread rapidly to the rest of the country. It became so popular and widely accepted because teachers felt educating about drugs and drug use was a taboo subject and parents blindly assumed their children would be receptive and obedient to police officers. Drug Abuse Resistance Education lost federal funding in 1998, after several academic studies showed that D.A.R.E. was a blatant failure at preventing drug use. Even after substantially overhauling the D.A.R.E. program and other educational programs are taking a new approach of giving children the knowledge and confidence to resist all form of peer pressure, no longer focusing on drugs being the problem in drug use but the situations that lead to use. But these new programs are focused in on preventing tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana usage, the reason being youth than alcohol and tobacco do more

These programs are designed to reduce risk factors within a community by encouraging partnerships, by parents with children, by policymakers with parents, by educators with students and even by children with their peers. Children who belong to households in which a parent or family member is dependent on drugs are often encouraged by these prevention programs to make informed and independent decisions, serving to guard them against imitating the mistakes of such adults.

After eliminating proposal three, I sat down to compare the effectiveness of Project DARE described in proposal one and the literacy program described in proposal two. After further research it came to my attention that despite “DARE [becoming] America’s most popular drug education program”, “[t]he effectiveness of [DARE] has yet to be demonstrated” (Rosenbaum, Flewelling, Bailey, Ringwalt, and Wilkinson 3-31). With this information I further examined proposal one by Ronald Smith and Kendra Jones which stated, “The Drug Abuse Resistance Education program has been active in our city for the past ten years” this statement in conjunction with the previous findings led me to question whether our funds would truly help to make a difference. After ten years of

Did you know that more teens die from prescription drugs than any other drug such as heroin, cocaine, or marijuana combine ? Because they're not educated enough with the D.A.R.E program. Recognizing the alarming increases in the abuse of prescription drugs and Over-the-Counter medicines, D.A.R.E. convened a meeting with national experts to create specialized lessons to educate students and their parents about the risks and consequences abusing prescription and OTC medicines. The D.A.R.E program (drug awareness resistance education) was founded in 1983. The program is led by police officers that teach kids in grades k-12 lessons on how drugs can affect them, physically, socially, and consequently and how to develop decision making skills

The summer that marked the transition from junior to senior high also became the point in my life when I realized my friends in middle school would turn into completely new people during high school. The innocent kids I grew up with were now experimenting with new things and new people, all of which were fine with me, until I received a phone call late one night. One of my friends was at an upperclassman's party where illegal substances were being abused. He was coaxed into ingesting large amounts of hydrocodone which led to a severe decrease in his blood pressure. Hearing this traumatic news prompted me to want to prevent an event like this from happening again. I contacted Deborah Soule, a Partnership for a Drug Free Community board member, and together we founded a drug prevention group called Today's Youth, Tomorrow's Leaders.