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Kids and Drugs
A collection of references on drugs and children -
what causes drug problems among children, and how to deal with them when they happen.
Drug Use Among Youth by the Health Education Unit, University of
Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1998
Adolescent Drug Use and Psychological Health
- A Longitudinal Inquiry, by Jonathan Shedler and Jack Block University of
California Berkeley, American Psychologist May, 1990
Adolescent Drug Abuse Facts & Myths
Chocolate to Morphine: Understanding Mind
Active Drugs - by Andrew Weil, MD and Winifred Rosen
The Acid Tattoo Scare - Why do people persist
in believing that children are under threat from psychedelic transfers? From Fortean Times
Magazine
Meta-Analysis of Adolescent Crime and Substance Use,
1981-1995
The substance of youth - the
place of drugs in young people's lives today - By Perri 6, Ben Jupp, Helen Perry and
Kristen Lasky, November 1997
Your Child and Stimulants (Dutch Government
Publication)
From The Consumers Union Report on
Licit and Illicit Drugs, 1972
US Government Reports
Drug Education for Kids
Recommendations of the US National
Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, 1973 regarding:
Drug Education, from Dealing With Drug Abuse, Report to the
Ford Foundation, 1972
DARE - Drug Abuse Resistance Education
- DRCNet DARE Page
- Think For Yourself DARE Page
- Past and Future Directions of the D.A.R.E. Program: An
Evaluation Review, (380K - big file) Draft Final Report by Research Triangle Institute
September 1994
- This is the study done by the Research Triangle Institute to evaluate the effectiveness
of the DARE drug-education program in the schools. The basic conclusion was that DARE was
highly popular with both police and the school officials, but had no real effect on
long-term drug use.
- Reducing The Risk of Drug Involvement Among Early
Adolescents: An Evaluation of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) by Michele Alicia
Harmon, April 1993 Institute of Criminal Justice and Criminology University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742
- A Personal Experience with DARE -
- DARE Scare: Turning Children Into Informants?
- US Rejects unfavorable DARE study
- Studies Find Drug Program Not Effective Yet
high-level supporters argue "it's better to have it than not have it"
- D.A.R.E.Works As Reported by 3,150 Ohio Eleventh
Graders -- This is a summary of the results of an Ohio study which supporters of DARE say
shows that DARE really does work. We have asked the DARE supporters to supply the
full text of the report, rather than just a brief summary, so we may post it here.
We will post it as soon as it is received, but as of this writing (November, 1998) we have
been asking for full text for several months and have not received it. If you happen
to know anyone at DARE who could supply a copy, please have them send it.
- Assessing the Effects of School-Based Drug Education:
A Six-Year Multi-Level Analysis of Project D.A.R.E. by Dennis P. Rosenbaum, Ph.D.
Professor and Head and Gordon S. Hanson, Ph.D. Research Associate Department of Criminal
Justice and Center for Research in Law and Justice University of Illinois at Chicago April
6, 1998
Youth, Drugs, and Driving
Self-Estimates and Objective Measurement of BRAC in
Young French Drivers: A Field Study and its Preventive Aspects
Values and Motivations of Young Drivers: Key
Components of Impaired Driving Countermeasures
Alcohol Restrictions for Novice Drivers
Juvenile DWI Offenders in Austria
Profile of Adolescent Drinking Drivers
Statistics
Trends in Adolescent Use (DEA Chart)
Study: Teen Drug Use Rises Dec. 15, 1995
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