Parents Role in Drug Education

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This research examines the role that parents can play in their children's response to the phenomenon of drug use and to the drug culture more generally. The research sets forth the context in which drugs-related issues have achieved prominence in recent years and then discusses why parents should talk to their children about drug use and abuse.

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"Any parent who has tried to make sense of the many research studies of recent years that explain or quantify the problem of drug use among young people could be forgiven for being a little confused. In 1997 it was reported that "most" teenagers will, at minimum, "experiment" with alcohol and drugs and that parents should be alert to several specific warning signs to head off the problem. In early 1999, the advocacy group Partnership for a Drug-Free America (Do your children, 1999, p. 5) reported a survey of some 9,700 teenagers and their parents in which 44 percent of the former admitted trying marijuana while only 21 percent of the latter thought their kids might have tried it--implying a communication disconnect between the generations. A survey of 50,000 high school students conducted at the University of Michigan in 1998 and reported in 1999 found that five percent of seniors admitted using cocaine in the previous year, though that figure is 12 percent lower than the all time high of 1985 (Farrington, 1999). In August 1999 the Los Angeles Times was reporting another survey showing a drop in teenage drug use (Balz, 1999)."

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