Parents

Parents

According to this survey, when a parent packs their kid up for school, there is a 50% chance that the school will have drugs in it.  Lessons about Oxycontin, methamphetamine, Adderall, pot and other drugs will be learned by kids and the parents won’t find evidence of these lessons in homework papers.

Parents need to be as informed on the signs of drug abuse as they do about the subjects that their kids are studying.

If these lessons are learned now, hopefully an education on drug treatment will be unnecessary.

“American students are essentially split over the question of whether their school is “drug free,” but students still cite drugs as a major problem facing people their age, according to a new survey of 12- to 17-year-olds from the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University.

Asked, “Is your school a drug-free school or is it not drug free, meaning some students keep drugs, use drugs or sell drugs on school grounds?,” 48 percent of students described their schools as “drug free” while 49 percent said their schools were “not drug free.”

Drugs were cited as a major problem by 21 percent of survey respondents, far more than the other popular responses (13 percent for social pressure or fitting in) and doing well in school (10 percent). An accompanying survey of parents, however, ranked social pressure as the biggest problem facing teens (32 percent), while just 12 percent cited drugs and 9 percent named doing well in school.”

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