Drug "education" got an early start and has for the most part proven itself virtually useless over the years. The main reason it doesn't work very well is that most of the drugs actually are fun to use, and nowhere near as dangerous as they are made out to be. There is one thing that drug education really has been effective at however: making young people distrust their elders. If we lie to them about marijuana, why in the world will they believe what we tell them about heroin? They don't. |
Maybe we should try telling the kids the truth | |||
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Year | Headline | Publication | Issue Date |
1925 | Proposed world conference on narcotic education | School and Society | Jun 27 |
1932 | Legal status of education against drug addiction in the United States | Education | Mar |
1937 | Alcohol and narcotic drugs, an urgent problem in health education | NEA Journal | Sep |
1946 | Saying don't is not enough | Chr Sci Monitor Magazine | Nov 9 |
1954 | Should narcotics education be extended to the juvenile? | Congressional Digest | Dec |
1971 | What's wrong with drug education? | Time | Feb 15 |
1972 | Ups and downs of drug-abuse education | Saturday Review | Nov 11 |
1974 | Shameful truth ... and consequences ... of school drug programs | Parents | Sep |
1984 | Anti-drug abuse program started for kids under 9 | Jet | Aug 20 |
1986 | Drug education gets an F | US News | Oct 20 |
1986 | Have you talked to your kids about crack? | Redbook | Nov |
1987 | Drug programs show mixed results | USA Today (Periodical) | Aug |
1987 | "We're teaching our kids to use drugs" | Reader's Digest | Nov |
1990 | A dirty drug secret: hyping instant addiction doesn't help | Newsweek | Feb 19 |
1990 | An antidrug message gets its facts wrong | Scientific American | May |
1991 | "Just say no" is not enough | Education Digest | Jan |
1992 | Talking about drugs and alcohol | Parents | Feb |
1993 | Just say maybe | Newsweek | Nov 1 |
1995 | Teaching your child about drugs & alcohol | Parents | Oct |
1997 | The failure of drug education | Public Interest | Fall |
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