Just Say No Again. Renee Moilanen.
by Moilanen, Renee; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 64Health. Publisher: Reason, 2004ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Drug abuse | Drug abuse -- Study and teaching | Drug Abuse Resistance Education | Education -- Curricula | School-based antidrug programs | Students -- Attitudes | Teenagers -- Drug useDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Today's [2004] anti-drug programs claim to have replaced all the scare tactics of years past with good, solid information about the physiological effects of drug use. But these programs, which are based on the same flawed 'scientific' information that adults have been using for years to keep kids off drugs, are a lot like anti-alcohol propaganda from the late 19th and early 20th centuries." (REASON) The author evaluates current drug prevention programs and opines that "what all of these programs continue to ignore is the most crucial piece in the drug prevention puzzle--the kids, and their stubbornly independent reactions to propaganda."Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005.
Originally Published: Just Say No Again, Jan. 2004; pp. 34-41.
"Today's [2004] anti-drug programs claim to have replaced all the scare tactics of years past with good, solid information about the physiological effects of drug use. But these programs, which are based on the same flawed 'scientific' information that adults have been using for years to keep kids off drugs, are a lot like anti-alcohol propaganda from the late 19th and early 20th centuries." (REASON) The author evaluates current drug prevention programs and opines that "what all of these programs continue to ignore is the most crucial piece in the drug prevention puzzle--the kids, and their stubbornly independent reactions to propaganda."
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