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“If kids use one of the three gateway drugs — alcohol, tobacco or cigarettes — between the ages of 12-17 their risks of using harder drugs goes up dramatically,” she says.
Starting in 1983, the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program sent police officers into classrooms to teach fifth- and sixth-graders about the dangers of drugs and the need, as Nancy Reagan ...
The share of high school students who have used illicit drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and even marijuana has fallen substantially since 2001 — right around the time D.A.R.E. fell out of popularity.
The curriculum consisted of the D.A.R.E. stunt car, and 'B-rad' lectures on the harmful consequences of drug and alcohol use, how to refuse drugs, building self-esteem and support networks, and alternatives to drugs. [3] Curriculum also condemned graffiti and tattoos because they were considered to be the result of peer pressure. [6]
Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" rally in Los Angeles, in 1987 "Just Say No" was an advertising campaign prevalent during the 1980s and early 1990s as a part of the U.S.-led war on drugs, aiming to discourage children from engaging in illegal recreational drug use by offering various ways of saying no.
According to their data, use of alcohol and other drugs is very common in Western societies. For example, 18% of the young adults between the ages of 12–14 years old in the US have indulged in binge drinking. According to quantities in 2006, 73% of 16-year-old US students were reported having used alcohol; In Northern Europe, this is 90%.
Avoid using drugs or alcohol in front of youth and demonstrate healthy coping mechanisms for managing stress or difficult emotions. Show them that it's possible to have fun and enjoy life without ...
Latawnya, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say "No" to Drugs is a book by Sylvia Scott Gibson directed towards children, warning them about the dangers of alcohol and what the book refers to as "smoking drugs". It was published by Vantage Press with a copyright date of 1991. [1]