Prescription Drugs In Schools

Medication administration is not only an increasing source of civil and administrative liability for school districts, but may lead to legal questions for school counselors, psychologists, and social workers(Mazur-Mosiewicz et al, 2009). Medication and its administration in school settings by school personnel have been topics addressed by both the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and the U.S. Department of Education and the federal courts as it relates to Section §504 and the IDEA. The rulings clearly suggest that schools have little power to limit their legal responsibilities, selectively deny administration of psychoactive prescriptive medication, and delegate the service to parents(Mazur-Mosiewicz et al, 2009).

Individual level risk factors for addiction may include low school involvement, existing mental disorders, history of abuse or neglect, and use during adolescence

Drug abuse is an increasing problem in our society, and specifically among teenagers. This increased affiliation with substances is very detrimental to teens. It causes an inability to focus, increases the chance that you will continue your drug abuse through your adulthood and it greatly damages the brain and many other organs. Our brains are developing when we are in our adolescence, which is why it is very important to discourage kids experimenting with drugs.

Prescription drug abuse among college students have increased over the past few years and is now a national problem. College students are abusing stimulant prescription pills just to stay awake to study and they will abuse the prescription pills just to stay awake to socialize with friends. According to the journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, they have come up with a new term called Generation RX, which is known to the rising group of young adults who are abusing prescription medication. In 2008 the National Drug Survey on Drug Use and Health had found an increase of 21.1% in the general population in the use of nonmedical prescription between the years of 1992-2003 and 15% of people ages 18-25 reported the use of prescription pills. Research showed that in the past ten years prescription stimulants has passed the abuse of other drugs on college campuses. The only drug that research says that prescription pills did not pass for being used more commonly was marijuana. College students have reported saying that they use prescription stimulants for both academic and recreational. To be more specific, college students said, "Alcohol, marijuana, prescription barbiturates, and cocaine were used mainly as "have fun" drugs. While ADHD medication was used for "getting good grades". (DeSantis et al., 2008, p. 317).

Illegal drugs are also becoming a problem in schools among the young adolescence. Schools should require random drug screening with the intent to disciple if drugs or found in their procession. Parents should be held liable if their child or caught with their prescription medication, is disturb or intent to sell, because prescription medication should be lock for the safety of their children. My focus for the paper on community safety, for adult, as well as, children is to keep positive events and activities on going in the community, so drugs will not be a solution to their problems, and to provide program in the community to up-lift the community to help keep the community safe for the well-being for the

Middle school students are doing drugs because of substance abuse and addiction and some kids are just experimenting harder drugs as young as 11 or 12 years old. Some students do it under peer pressure by other students. Students that may older than them. Most student are

Adolescences and young adults begin using drugs including prescription drugs, illegal drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. It’s hard to understand the reasons why adolescences and adults abuse drugs. New experiences are sought out by adults and adolescences and they will give and administrator many reasons for doing so to have that experience of new highs. It is so shocking to know that almost 3/4 of the seniors in high school have tried drugs, and have tried alcohol as well. Then almost 1/2 have tried illegal drugs and have smoked cigarettes, and about 1/3 have tried prescription drugs and it was not for medical reasons either. It is a risk factor that adolescences try drugs thinking

Drugs can result in teens not doing well in school, which can lead to lower academic opportunities and career options.

Often times the spike in drug use among students is noticeable in the junior year of high school. Once kids

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

Drugs have been a rapidly growing problem for kids and teenagers over the years. Though there is no sure way to prevent the use of them, there are many precautions that can be taken to reduce, or eliminate the chances. The effects of taking drugs is far too dangerous to sit back and ignore. There are things that can be done today to prevent drug abuse among children in the future. The most common way to prevent drug abuse is simply by being educated on the dangers and effects of them.

As daunting as the reality of drug use is, we can’t get around the truth that drug abuse is extremely prevalent on our college campus and other campuses across the country. In the past few years, daily marijuana use grew to a whopping 11.8% of college youth in 2015. This striking statistic doesn’t include any use of non-medical prescription drugs, cocaine, synthetic drugs, or hookah either. Even high schoolers in recent years have reported in various surveys that they have easier access to obtaining marijuana and painkillers like Vicodin than just tobacco or alcohol. One of the big factors

Alcohol is one big drug that is the most used by teens. Alcohol is the hardest the hardest drug to get caught with. Alcohol doesn't stay in your system for very long. The Alcohol only stays in your system for a few hours. How do you know that the alcohol is the problem it could be the students surrounding. It does state that the students surroundings dose affect how they could be involved in drugs.

In "Identifying Students at Risk for Drug Use" the web site's author lists factors in a teen's life that can make him or her more susceptible to drug use and its immediate problems, such as low academic achievement, poor class attendance, and dropping out of school. Students coming from a family history of alcoholism, criminal, or antisocial behavior, are at a higher risk for drug use than students who do not have family structure and management problems. Students who have long periods of time without adult supervision and those who have bad school attendance also tend to have a lack of motivation to do school work. This means that they have alternate things to do with their time, so they are not performing as well as they could be as students.

Randomized drug testing in schools is the easiest and most effective resolution to teen drug use in today’s youth’s society. As a teen, your body and mind are still developing and growing. Using drugs at an early age can lead to behavior issues and can affect thinking process with prolonged use. The reason drugs are unhealthy for development is that they affect the way neurons normally send, receive, and process information. This is important to know because the brain manages your body’s basic functions and helps you respond to everything you experience and shapes your thoughts, emotions, and behavior. (https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugs-brains-behavior-science-addiction/drugs-brain) High school students should be drug tested because it gives students a good reason to say no to drugs, it is important to intervene early, and it increases chances of success in their future.