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    What Works: Schools Without Drugs
    What Works: Schools Without Drugs
    What Works: Schools Without Drugs
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    What Works: Schools Without Drugs

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    Release dateSep 4, 2022
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      What Works - United States. Department of Education

      United States. Department of Education

      What Works: Schools Without Drugs

      EAN 8596547227458

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: [email protected]

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      "I felt depressed and hurt all the time. I hated myself for the way I hurt my parents and treated them so cruelly, and for the way I treated others. I hated myself the most, though, for the way I treated myself. I would take drugs until I overdosed, and fell further and further in school and work and relationships with others. I just didn't care anymore whether I lived or died. I stopped going to school altogether. … I felt constantly depressed and began having thoughts of suicide, which scared me a lot! I didn't know where to turn. …"

      —Stewart, a high school student

      CHILDREN AND DRUGS

      Chart 1

      Chart 1

      Percentage of 13-Year-Olds Who Have Used Marijuana, 1953–1982

      Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse Household Survey 1982

      Children and Drugs

      Americans have consistently identified drug use among the top problems confronting the Nation's schools. Yet many do not recognize the degree to which their own children, their own schools, and their own communities are at risk.

      Research shows that drug use among children is 10 times more prevalent than parents suspect. In addition, many students know that their parents do not recognize the extent of drug use, and this leads them to believe that they can use drugs with impunity.

      School administrators and teachers often are unaware that their students are using and selling drugs, frequently on school property. School officials who are aware of the situation in their schools admit, as has Ralph Egers, superintendent of schools in South Portland, Maine, that We'd like to think that our kids don't have this problem, but the brightest kid from the best family in the community could have the problem.

      The facts are:

      Drug use is not confined to certain population groups or to certain economic levels in our society; it affects our entire Nation.

      Drugs are a serious problem not only in high schools, but now in middle and elementary schools as well.

      All illegal drugs are dangerous; there is no such thing as safe or responsible use of illegal drugs.

      Although drug trafficking is controlled by adults, the immediate source of drugs for most students is other students.

      Continuing misconceptions about the drug problem stand in the way of corrective action. The following section outlines the nature and extent of the problem and summarizes the latest research on the effects of drugs on students and schools.

      Chart 2

      Chart 2

      Percentage of High School Seniors Who Have Used Cocaine

      Source: Institute for Social Research 1986

      Extent of Drug Use

      Drug use is widespread among American schoolchildren. The United States has the highest rate of teenage drug use of any industrialized nation. The drug problem in this country is 10 times greater than in Japan, for example. Sixty-one percent of high school seniors have used drugs. Marijuana use remains at an unacceptably high level; 41 percent of 1985 seniors reported using it in the last year, and 26 percent said they had used it at least once in the previous month. Thirteen percent of seniors indicated that they had used cocaine in the past year. This is the highest level ever observed, more than twice the proportion in 1975.

      Many students purchase and use drugs at school. A recent study of teenagers contacting a cocaine hotline revealed that 57 percent of the respondents bought most of their drugs at school. Among 1985 high school seniors, one-third of the marijuana users reported that they had smoked marijuana at school. Of the seniors who used amphetamines during the past year, two-thirds reported having taken them at school.

      The drug problem affects all types of students. All regions and all types of communities show high levels of drug use. Forty-three percent of 1985 high school seniors in nonmetropolitan areas reported illicit drug use in the previous year, while the rate for seniors in large metropolitan areas was 50 percent. Although higher proportions of males are involved in illicit drug use, especially heavy drug use, the gap between the sexes is lessening. The extent to which high school seniors reported having used marijuana is about the same for blacks and whites; for other types of drugs reported, use is slightly higher among whites.

      Initial drug use occurs at an increasingly early age. The percentage of students using drugs by the sixth grade has tripled over the last decade. In the early 1960's, marijuana use was virtually nonexistent among 13-year-olds, but now about one in six 13-year-olds has used marijuana.

      Fact Sheet

      Drugs and Dependence

      Drugs cause physical and emotional dependence. Users may develop an overwhelming craving for specific drugs, and their bodies may respond to the presence of drugs in ways that lead to increased drug use.

      Regular users of drugs develop tolerance, a need to take larger doses to get the same initial effect. They may respond by combining drugs—frequently with devastating results. Many teenage drug users calling

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