The Role of Drug Education

There were two thinks that we should know about drug education role :

1) Drug Misuse : supply information as to what a particular drug can do and what it is unable to do, analyze motivations separating underlying need fulfillment from socially acceptable excuses, provide the stimulus for students to clarify their values concerning health, risk-taking behavior, and drugs so that rational decision-making processes can be developed.

2) Drug Use : The drug education program can examine reason for use, social acceptability, attitudes toward drugs, and historical development of practices and attitudes, and compare the benefits with the physical, phychological, social, and legal drawbacks.

Reference : Drug Education, Content and Methods ( Daniel A. Girdano ; Dorothy Dusek : 1980 )