Washington Blade

Drug education can prevent some opioid overdoses

October marks National Substance Use Prevention Month, making it an ideal time to ramp up overdose prevention messaging. Amid the ongoing opioid epidemic, prevention messaging has become critical to ...
KQED

How Should Schools Educate Teens About Drugs?

D.A.R.E. stands for “drug abuse resistance education” and is a program that has been in schools since the 80s to prevent youth from doing drugs. Schools widely accepted the program all over the ...
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Drug prevention education expands in Charles City as DARE returns to local schools

The Charles City County Elementary School will soon re-introduce a program focused on drug prevention and awareness for the 2025-26 academic year.
Ghana News Agency on MSN

UBS, NACOC urge youth to reject drugs through empowerment, education

By Michael Foli Jackidy, GNA Ho (V/R), June 26, GNA – The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) and the UHAS Basic School (UBS) have called for sustained investment in youth empowerment, education and ...
Yahoo

D.A.R.E. didn’t work. How can school programs actually keep kids off drugs?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo illustration: Joanne Imperio for Yahoo News (Photo Illustration: Joanne Imperio for Yahoo News) For decades, being a public ...
Education Week

Districts Are Stocking Up on Naloxone But Often Ignoring Drug Prevention

Forty percent of school and district leaders nationwide said their schools stock the opioid-reversing drug naloxone to counter dangerous drug overdoses, according to a survey this fall by the EdWeek ...
Newsweek

Education Should Focus on Stopping Drug Use Before It Starts | Opinion

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Efforts to prevent drug use and encourage kids to live free from drugs ...
Education Week

For Drug Prevention, Scare Tactics Are Out. Here’s What’s In

Anyone who was a teenager in the 1980s may well remember the phrase “Just Say No,” the centerpiece of a government-led anti-drug initiative launched by the late former first lady Nancy Reagan. The ...
Psychology Today

We Need to Stop Trying to Raise “Drug-Free” Kids

“Beer then liquor, never sicker… Liquor then beer, never fear.” This was a common refrain when I was a Gen X teenager. Besides “Don’t drink and drive,” this was the extent of how I was taught to drink ...

Drug tests at schools—a stitch in time

Why not explore a scientific and responsible method to detect drug and substance abuse among school and college students at ...
NPR

As more teens overdose on fentanyl, schools face a drug crisis unlike any other

Before the overdose, Griffin Hoffmann was a sophomore, about to lead his Portland, Ore., high school's tennis team. Sienna Vaughn was a junior in Plano, Texas, who participated in Girl Scouts and ...