How can we help our schools to be drug free?
- Drug education curricula should present a clear, no use message.
- School administration, parent groups and student organizations should consistently support healthy, drug free lifestyles and reject ‘safe’ or ‘responsible’ use messages.
- Random student drug testing gives students an easy out for peer pressure and an inarguable reason to say no.
- The school community should encourage positive reinforcement for good choices and support consequences for inappropriate behavior.
- School administrators should promote an open dialogue and listen to concerns about drug use in their schools.
- Drug or alcohol abuse is not a rite of passage or inevitable; in fact, most students do not use drugs.