User:Shannon243/Drug education

Drug education is the planned provision of information, guidelines, resources, and skills relevant to living in a world where psychoactive substances are widely available and commonly used for a variety of both medical and non-medical purposes, some of which may lead to harms such as overdose, injury, infectious disease, and addiction. It incorporates several areas of alcohol and other drug recovery, such as :

https://www.aspenridgerecoverycenters.com/why-is-drug-education-important/
 * Research and development
 * Preventive treatment
 * Early childhood or in-school education
 * Recovery

In efforts to prevent substance abuse, drug education may perpetuate myths and stereotypes about psychoactive substances and people who use them. A pilot study of Safety First: Real Drug Education for Teens showed significant results pre to post curriculum with high school freshmen. Negative outcomes of drug education are linked to a failure to engage students because of developmentally inappropriate materials that include activities that have no relevance to real experiences of young people. The few harm reduction studies showed increased student drug related knowledge.

Drug education can be given in numerous forms, some more effective than others. Examples include advertising and awareness raising campaigns such as the UK Government's FRANK campaign or the US "media campaign".