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Mourners gather at Apalachee High School in Barrow County, Georgia, the evening before classes resumed across the district, less than a week after two teachers and two students were gunned down ...
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 ...
Education sector responses to substance abuse. Education sector responses to substance abuse refers to the way in which the education sector strategizes, developments and implements policies and practices that address the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs in educational settings. [1]
Mental health in education is the impact that mental health (including emotional, psychological, and social well-being) has on educational performance.Mental health often viewed as an adult issue, but in fact, almost half of adolescents in the United States are affected by mental disorders, and about 20% of these are categorized as “severe.” [1] Mental health issues can pose a huge problem ...
DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools, by Max Felker-Kantor, The University of North Carolina Press, 288 pages, $27.95. The post DARE Didn't Make Kids 'Say No' to Drugs. It ...
Rational scale to assess the harm of drugs. Substance abuse prevention, also known as drug abuse prevention, is a process that attempts to prevent the onset of substance use or limit the development of problems associated with using psychoactive substances. Prevention efforts may focus on the individual or their surroundings.
Arguments that drug laws are effective. Supporters of prohibition claim that drug laws have a successful track record suppressing illicit drug use since they were introduced in the 1910s. [1][2] The licit drug alcohol has current (last 12 months) user rates as high as 80–90% in populations over 14 years of age, [3] and tobacco has ...
Warning over drugs that can kill in tiny doses. Police and public health leaders have warned it has "never been" more dangerous to take drugs thanks to the arrival of super-strength man-made ...