Drug use in Schools

Kansas has participated in a community-based program for the prevention of drug abuse. The Kansas City area is the first of two major sites being evaluated in the Midwestern Prevention Project, a trial for primary prevention of cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use in children. The project includes media attention, a school-based educational program for youths, parent education and organization. Effects of the program are determined through annual assessments of young adults drug use in schools that are assigned to immediate intervention or delayed intervention control conditions. In the first 2 years of the project, 22,500 sixth and seventh-grade children received the school-based educational program component, with parental involvement in homework and mass media coverage. They analyzed 42 schools to indicate that the prevalence rates of use for all three drugs are significantly lower at 1-year follow-up in the intervention condition relative to the delayed intervention condition. Drugs and alcohol are becoming an epidemic, and now with vaping on the rise students need to be careful about what they put into their bodies and learn to say no. Students do these things every day at school. It is in the best interest of the administrators to prevent drug usage in the school to stop the spread of any conflict that they could potentially cause. However, it is also imperative to maintain some level of privacy so that students do not lash out against the administrators and school-wide morale remains fairly high. In this school, I know there is very little privacy causing a lot of kids to lash out. This is that drugs are a problem that could very well have destructive effects on anyone at any time.