Drug Education: Programmes and Methodology - An Overview of Opportunities for Drug Prevention (EC - UNESCO, 1995, 41 p.): IV. Drug Prevention in some European Countries: A Review of Policies and Programmes: (introduction...)

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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This Chapter gives more detail about some national drug abuse prevention policies and strategies in order to propose a practical overview in some European countries during the last decade and to offer a few illustrations of how drug abuse prevention theory or philosophy can be translated into practical prevention, and into educational programmes for different target groups. The focus will be on some aspects, such as:

- background information on national drug policy;
- types of educational or prevention programmes;
- short description of some programmes;
- review of evaluation studies.

There are, of course, many types of prevention programmes being carried out in these countries. The aim is not to offer an extensive overview, but rather to give an idea of how the main programmes, targeted on segments of the national population, fit (or do not fit) into the policy framework of a country.

Mass media programmes, school drug prevention programmes, training programmes for health professionals, and community prevention programmes have been selected from The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Sweden and Germany.