—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 16, 1972
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by PETER G. HAMMOND
Executive Director, National
Coordinating Council on Drug Education
Drug abuse prevention has
not escaped America’s pro
pensity to deal with social
problems by dumping them
on our educational school sys
tem. We have unjustly de
manded that education ac
complish overnight what law
enforcement, the medical pro
fession, and others have
failed to do. If the task is
the same —preventing all il
legal drug use—school sys
tems will also fail.
Any progress the school
systems make will be a result
of modification of goals, flex
ibility of curriculum, certi
fication exemptions, and em
phasis on decision making.
Unfortunately, there is little
or no evidence of these es
sential changes.
Education, as in “drug
abuse education,” is primar
ily indoctrination or attempts
to persuade through commu
nication. Selected informa
tion which supports precon
ceived notions of the drug
problem is presented to stu
dents corralled in assemblies
or health classes. Success is
measured by the number of
students reached and quanti
ties of materials distributed.
The assumption is made that
so-called “facts” about drugs
will change attitudes and re
sult in predetermined beha
vior change.
This approach to drug ed
ucation is defective and
counter productive. Yet, it
characterizes more than fifty
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per cent of our national ef
fort and is fostered and sup
ported by federal, state and
local governments. In the
next column, the why’s of
drug abuse education failure
will be discussed.
Many communities work
ing to prevent drug misuse
jnly need a place in the com
munity where young people
lan talk to each other, and in
.he process, head off reliance
m drugs. These facilities are
mown as “awareness houses,”
‘listening posts,” "frustra
,ion forums,” and “rap cen
.ers.” Whatever the facility
,s called, what’s needed is a
place to meet (regularly),
some money, man-hours, pro
fessional counseling. What we
caution about other programs
applies equally as well to
awareness houses.
Many communities have
discovered that its young peo
ple turn to drugs because
they cannot “find them
selves,” because they feel cut
off and adrift from society.
In some towns, “awareness
houses” have been founded to
provide a place, a setting, for
self-discovery and open-ended
discussion. Operating under
guidance, but not adult direc
tion, awareness houses give
kids a place to talk it out, to
find common ground with
each other, and frequently,
to find out more about them
selves.
The basics are a storefront
or meeting room, a volunteer
or part-time counseling staff
or single professional, and
the usual support services of
clerical work and mainte
nance. The key to the
awareness house concept is
responsibility. The center will
probably be most effective if
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its operation. Responsibility,
in many cases, leads to self
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and these, in turn, can help a
young man or woman head off
drug reliance before it be
comes a too-welcome crutch.
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