Drugs in School & Drug Rehabilitation

School is a place where many kids start experimenting with drugs. The problems of drugs in school and on the street may not look as bad as many think. But drugs have become more and more common in recent years, particularly among the younger students in school. According to the most recent government survey in 1998, 8.3% of the students in senior high schools were interested in drugs and considered taking them. 62% thought drugs should not be taken at all because those were (and are) prohibited by law. 20.4% of those asked thought taking drugs was a matter of individual choice.

In 1995, 17,364 individuals were caught for drug use. This is a 16.65% increase from the previous year. The number of minors caught for use, possession, selling, or buying of drugs was 1,083. This is a 30.2% increase from the year before. The number of senior high school students arrested for drug use doubled from 1994. In 1997, over 20,000 were arrested due to drug related problems. The number includes 43 junior high school students and 219 senior high school students.

The role that youth drug use plays in school failure, violence, and anti-social/self-destructive behavior is well known. It is also known that parents strongly influence their children's decisions about drug use. Parents model substance Abstinence or abuse; express attitudes about drugs, alcohol, and tobacco; and control their children's exposure to drugs by monitoring their activities, behavior, and friendships.

Drug prevention education is a natural component of the family resource centers, common in schools, which provide and coordinate social services. Schools focus on supporting parents, and on promoting protective factors rather than reducing risks of drugs in school. The result is parents that are new and willing prevention partners. Schools are also encouraging students, staff, and parents to recognize the many positive experiences that families provide. They are expanding the definition of family to include blended, single-parent, extended, and foster families. The goal is to encourage family closeness and support which satisfies the needs of youth that otherwise might drive them to Drug Abuse or addiction. In fact, the close-knit family systems characteristic of Latino groups has helped protect their youth from dysfunctional behavior, and they serve as a model for work with all families.

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After the initial effects, abusers usually will be drowsy for several hours. Mental function is clouded by heroin's effect on the central nervous system. Cardiac function slows. Heroin facts about its short term effects include severely slowed breathing, sometimes to the point of death. Both first time users and experienced heroin abusers are at risk for overdose because they never know the true purity of the heroin they are using. A heroin overdose can take place if the heroin the user has purchased is stronger than they anticipated or if the drug has been “cut” with a dangerous chemical.

While heroin can be sniffed, snorted or smoked, most users inject the drug into a muscle or vein. Heroin facts show that pregnant women who share needles are at risk of contracting HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) and passing it on to their babies.

In 2000, as part of DAWN's year-end emergency data report, heroin related emergency room visits increased 15% from the last year.

In the US, opium was used to treat soldiers during the Civil War (1861-1865). During the late 1800s, doctors prescribed "tonics" containing opiates for many conditions. Rarely did these medicines list opiates as one of the ingredients. In fact, heroin was marketed as a cough medicine and a cure for morphine addiction. However, many physicians had concerns about possible addiction to these medicines.

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