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This 5 page paper emphasizes that while we have had drug awareness programs in our curriculum for decades, these programs have been largely ineffective. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Drugs have been used to get a "high" for centuries. Indeed, historical records trace such use back some 7000 years to
the Sumerians of Asia Minor and their references to the "joy plant", a plant that modern experts believe to be the opium poppy (Hanson, 2006). Illicit drug use is
a very real problem when it affects our youth. Unfortunately, illicit drug use is just one of the many challenges which face todays teens. It is also one
of the greatest threats to their safety, health, and welfare. Today, not only is drug use more widespread, drugs are much
more potent than they were just a few decades ago (Hanson, 2006). Marijuana is the drug most often associated with the high school drug culture. That may
seem to some a relatively minor problem. Marijuana today, however, is much more potent than marijuana of the 1960s. Even more concerning, the problem in our schools runs
much deeper than even that. The teenage drug culture does not just revolve around marijuana, it revolves as well around cocaine, meth, and other illicit drugs. Alcohol is
a very consistent element in that use as well. Drug and alcohol abuse among adolescents is really more common than we care to admit. It is something that
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