Adolescent Drug Use/ Drug Education
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Adolescent
Drug Use in Cross-Cultural Perspective
By Charles Grob and Marlene de Rios. Journal of Drug Issues. Winter,
1992. 22(1): 121-138.
And
Justice for Some
Eileen Poe-Yamagata and Michael A. Jones, senior researchers with the National
Council on Crime and Delinquency in San Francisco, found that for those charged
with drug offenses, black youths are 48 times more likely than whites to be
sentenced to juvenile prison. (Note: This link will take you to the Building
Blocks for Youth Website.)
Can Science-Based
Prevention Deliver the Goods in the Real World?
By Rodney Skager. Prevention File. 1998. 13(1): 11-14.
The
"Cure" for Adolescent Drug Abuse: Worse than the Problem?
By Stanton Peele in Journal of Counseling and Development, 65:23-24,
1986. (14K) (Note: This link will take you to the Stanton Peele Addiction
Website.)
Don't Panic! A
Parent's Guide To Understanding and Preventing Alcohol and Drug Abuse
This pamphlet was originally published by Stanton Peele in 1983 with CompCare
Publications, Minneapolis. It was revised in 1996 with the editorial assistance
of Marianne Apostolides and financial support from The Lindesmith Center, New
York. (26K) (Note: This link will take you to the Stanton Peele Addiction
Website.)
Does
the D.A.R.E. Program Work? No
By Donald R. Lynam. The American Teacher. October, 1999. (Note: This link
will take you to the American Federation of Teachers Website.)
Drug Free
Schools
Audio File of the May 17, 2000 All Things Considered Report. From
the introduction on their Website: "About half the kids in the Chambersburg
Middle School in Pennsylvania have volunteered to take drug tests as part of a
local program that gives drug-free kids discounts at local stores and
preferential treatment with local employers. A quarter of the high school
students also participate in the program, which requires random drug tests. Beau
Boughamer has the story." (Note: This link will take you to the NPR
Website.)
Drug
Free Schools Survey: Report of Results
By Denis Hallfors, et al., School of Public Health, University of North Carolina,
NC, April 10, 2000. This report found that "cash-strapped schools are still
relying primarily on the DARE program to keep their students off drugs, even
though a number of studies have questioned its effectiveness." (Note
this link will take you to the apbnews.com Website.)
Drug
Mistreatment
Jake Ginsky, Mother Jones Magazine, February 18, 2000. (Note: This link will
take you to the MOJO Website.)
Drug
Prevention Placebo: How DARE Wastes Time, Money, and Police
A 1995 Reason article by Jeff Elliot (46K).
Harm
Reduction: An Emerging New Paradigm for Drug Education
A 1994 Journal of Drug Education by David F. Duncan, et al.. (Note:
This link will take you to the Schaffer drug library Website.)
Illegal
Leisure: Recreational Drug Use Among 1990s British Youth
Audio recording of a TLC Drug Policy Series Seminar held in New York City
Wednesday, April 7th, 1999. Howard Parker, PhD, professor of social work at the
University of Manchester and author of Illegal Leisure: The Normalization of
Adolescent Recreational Drug Use (Routledge 1998), analyzes the contemporary
youth drug scene in the United Kingdom. Parker, director of SPARC, a British
social policy research center, examines the impact of drug law and policy on
British youth.
In Their Own Voices
A 1996 report by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation for the
California State Board of Education (182K).
Just
Say Know: New Directions in Drug Education
Listen to recordings of this October 1999 conference held in San Francisco and
sponsored by TLC.
Kids, Drugs, and Drug Education: A Harm Reduction Approach ( .pdf
format, 93K)
A 1996 policy statement by TLC-West Director, Marsha
Rosenbaum.
Marijuana Prohibition
Has Not Curtailed Marijuana Use by Adolescents
Report by Chuck Thomas, Director of Communications, Marijuana Policy Project,
Washington, DC. August 20, 1998. (.PDF format, 73K) (Note: This link will
take you to the MPP Website.)
Preventing
Drug Abuse: What Do We Know?
By Dean R. Gerstein and Lawrence W. Green, Editors, Committee on Drug Abuse
Prevention Research, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,
National Research Council. National Academy Press, 1993. (Note: This link
will take you to the National Academy Press Website.)
Project
DARE: No Effects at 10-Year Follow-Up
Donald R. Lynam, et al., Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
67(4), August 1999, 590–593. (Note: this link will take you to the Journal
of Consulting and Clinical Psychology Website.)
Running Scared:
We're Too Frightened to Deal with the Real Issues in Adolescent Substance Abuse
By Stanton Peele in Health Education Review, 2:423-432, 1987. (46K) (Note:
This link will take you to the Stanton Peele Addiction Website.)
Safety
First: A Reality-Based Approach to Teens, Drugs and Drug Education.
By Rosenbaum, Marsha. San Francisco: The Lindesmith Center -West. October, 1999.
School Drug Education:
Policy Position Paper for the Australian Professional Society on Alcohol and
Other Drugs
By Cecile McKeown, adopted by the APSAD Council, 6 April 1998. (28K)
The TAOS Report
The 1996 report of the Committee to Review the Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other
Substances (TAOS) Curriculum (65K).
Tuning Out and
Turning On: Student Response to Contemporary Drug Education
Audio recording of a TLC Drug Policy Series Seminar held in New York City
December 12, 1995. Dr. Joel Brown, senior scientist and principal investigator
with Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), discusses the
Institute's three-year study "In Their Own Voices", which found that
current anti-drug programs in schools are ineffective and even detrimental to
students. Dr. Brown discusses national implications of this research and present
alternative approaches to drug education.
What
Have We Learned From Drug Education?
Presented at the 8th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related
Harm, in Paris, 1996 by Niall Coggins. (25K) (Note: This link will take you
to the DrugText Website.)