DRUG EDUCATION: DOES IT PREVENT DRUG ABUSE

Drug Education: Does it Prevent Drug Abuse

Drug Education: Does it Prevent Drug Abuse

Prospectus

In educational levels, all peers and classmates of different backgrounds seem to indulge into irregular activities of drugs usage and other unethical activities. Children who witness and or experience drugs likely to develop and internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. The dilemma of the society indicates that there is less interaction (in terms of grooming and refining children with predefined belives and values). This less interaction mostly is due to both parents being busy earning money due to current econonomical and financial constraints on families. The other aspect of engaging children into drugs is not completing their desires in terms of their education or social. As Dr. Joan McCord quotes, a leading expert on evaluating anti-drug programs, that it is an error in developing a program to communicate the disadvantages of drug especially on children. As David Gorman quotes, the drug education instead of teaching, work vise versa an increases the drug abuse instead of abstain from it. (Cook 2003)

Hence, I have decided to evaluate a contextual analysis on this topic. This contextual analysis is focusing on drug education and prevention programs delivered to junior high school age youth. Drug contributes to aggression in all humans especially for children who are in their educational level. The main concept is to identify a relationship between parents, home, school, friends, and society. What is the main factor which causes chidren to be attracted towards drug usage and its abuse? This contextual analysis is aiming to discover the main factors behind drug use and abuse. (Bell 2008)

In connection with the drugs, the concept of parental mediation may indicate, for example, that the negative consequences of drugs for homeless children can be explained primarily by addressing how ...