Drug Education: Programmes and Methodology - An Overview of Opportunities for Drug Prevention (EC

Drug Education: Programmes and Methodology - An Overview of Opportunities for Drug Prevention (EC - UNESCO, 1995, 41 p.)

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Introduction

I. Drug Abuse Prevention Strategies

Supply reduction or demand reduction?

Dilemmas of drug prevention

II. The planning process of drug education

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Drug abuse assessment

Developing prevention goals and objectives

Identification of resources

Determining the content and selecting methods of the prevention programme

Implementation

Evaluation

Programmes, target groups and intermediaries

III. Methods and techniques of drug education

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Drug Education and Mass Media

Principles of Mass Media

Drug Education utilizing group methods and techniques

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Knowledge and drug information model

Affective education model

Social influence model

Life skills model of drug education

IV. Drug Prevention in some European Countries: A Review of Policies and Programmes

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United Kingdom

The Netherlands

Sweden

Germany

V. Effectiveness of Drug Education

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Evaluation of Mass Media Drug Education

Evaluation of Drug Education through Group Methods

VI. Conclusion and suggestions for Model Programmes of Drug Education

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Preventive Education Series 2

Education Sector

The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily coincide with any official views of UNESCO. The designations used and the presentation of the material herein do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNESCO concerning the legal status of any country, or of its authorities or concerning the delimitations of the frontiers of any country or territory.

Prevention of Drug Abuse Unit,
Division for the Renovation of Educational Curricula and Structures

PREVENTIVE EDUCATION SERIES

Arabic = A; English = E; French = F; Russian = R; Spanish = S

No.	Title	Language	Year
	International Annotated Bibliography on the Prevention of Drug Abuse through Education (PEDDRO joint UNESCO-European Commission project) - special issue	E, F. S	1994
1.	Prevention of Drug Abuse through Education and Information: an Interdisciplinary Responsability within the context of Human Development	E, F	1994
2.	Drug Education: Programmes and Methodology. An overview of Opportunities for Drug Prevention	E, F	1995
3.	Drug Prevention Education Functional Adult Literacy Programme, Ghana Facilitator's Manual	E, F. S	1995

by Wim. R. BUISMAN
Psychologist
Jellinek Center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paris, January 1995

NOTE

This report is addressed to drug prevention officers, health educators, health managers and policy makers as a guide to setting up drug prevention programmes adapted to their own particular situations. Its aims is to give an overview of strategies, processed methodologies, guidelines in drug prevention and drug education along with examples of programmes.

The premise is that preventive education against drug abuse can only be effective if it is considered as an activity, as asocial process, and is arried out in a planned and systematic way. The goal of prevention must be set in terms of what is realistic both for the individual and for society at large, and in terms of possibilities offered by environmental context and lifestyles. In other words, a good, carefully prepared prevention programme with clearly formulated and attainable goals, selected techniques and realistic planning will contribute to rendering education effective.