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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 ...
For decades, being a public school student in the United States almost universally meant you were required to sit through the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program.
Current substance use control strategies increasingly understand substance use to be first and foremost a health issue that is best addressed through a range of demand reduction measures including early intervention; treatment; rehabilitation; recovery and social reintegration measures; and measures to minimize the public health and social ...
The panel discussion on Aug. 29 for students, parents and the community will include local experts on substance abuse and mental health. Salina Schools to host event addressing substance abuse ...
The Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Advisory Committee, authorized by the No Child Left Behind Act, was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. The Committee was established to provide advice to the Secretary on Federal, state, and local programs designated to create safe and drug-free schools, and on issues ...
The policy extended to off-campus and after-school conduct, but the controversy reached the general efficacy and constitutionality of drug testing policies. [ 7 ] Opposing the policy were local student groups and the local Oregon American Civil Liberties Union , which had advocated on behalf of various students expelled by the Ashland School ...
An additional 237 million men and 46 million women have alcohol use disorder as of 2016. [18] In 2017, substance use disorders from illicit substances directly resulted in 585,000 deaths. [17] Direct deaths from drug use, other than alcohol, have increased over 60 percent from 2000 to 2015. [19]
Afghanistan is now the only country on Earth to not permit education of girls in schools Afghanistan marks two years of women and girls being banned from schools: ‘Hopeless and broken’ Skip to ...