Kids and Drugs
A collection of references on drugs and children -
what causes drug problems among children, and how to deal with them when they happen.

Drug Use Among Youth by the Health Education Unit, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1998

• I - Drug Use by Young Females
• II - Drug Use by Young Males

Adolescent Drug Use and Psychological Health - A Longitudinal Inquiry, by  Jonathan Shedler and Jack Block University of California Berkeley,  American Psychologist  May, 1990 

Adolescent Drug Abuse Facts & Myths

Chocolate to Morphine: Understanding Mind Active Drugs - by Andrew Weil, MD and Winifred Rosen 

The Acid Tattoo Scare - Why do people persist in believing that children are under threat from psychedelic transfers? From Fortean Times Magazine

Meta-Analysis of Adolescent Crime and Substance Use, 1981-1995

The substance of youth - the place of drugs in young people's lives today -  By Perri 6, Ben Jupp, Helen Perry and Kristen Lasky, November 1997

Your Child and Stimulants (Dutch Government Publication)

From The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs, 1972

• How to Launch a Nationwide Drug Menace
• How LSD Was Popularized
• How The Hazards of LSD Were Augmented
• How Speed Was Popularized
• Heroin on the Youth Drug Scene - and In Vietnam
• Why a Youth Drug Scene
• Emergence from the Drug Scene
• Learning from Past Mistakes
• Recommendations

US Government Reports

• Foster Care: Health Needs of Many Young Children Are Unknown and
• School Safety: Promising Initiatives for Addressing School Viole
• Child Welfare: Complex Needs Strain Capacity to Provide Services
• Foster Care: Parental Drug Abuse Has Alarming Impact on Young Ch
• Juvenile Justice: Juveniles Processed In Criminal Court and Case
• Juvenile Justice: Representation Rates Varied As Did Counsel's I
• "Boot Camp" Drug Treatment and Aftercare Interventions: An Evaluation Review

Drug Education for Kids

Recommendations of the US National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, 1973 regarding:

• drug abuse prevention and drug education in schools
• colleges and universities
• mass media

Drug Education, from Dealing With Drug Abuse, Report to the Ford Foundation, 1972

DARE - Drug Abuse Resistance Education

• DRCNet DARE Page
• Think For Yourself DARE Page
• Past and Future Directions of the D.A.R.E. Program: An Evaluation Review, (380K - big file) Draft Final Report by Research Triangle Institute September 1994
• This is the study done by the Research Triangle Institute to evaluate the effectiveness of the DARE drug-education program in the schools. The basic conclusion was that DARE was highly popular with both police and the school officials, but had no real effect on long-term drug use.
• Reducing The Risk of Drug Involvement Among Early Adolescents: An Evaluation of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) by Michele Alicia Harmon, April 1993 Institute of Criminal Justice and Criminology University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
• A Personal Experience with DARE -
• DARE Scare: Turning Children Into Informants?
• US Rejects unfavorable DARE study
• Studies Find Drug Program Not Effective Yet high-level supporters argue "it's better to have it than not have it"
• D.A.R.E.Works As Reported by 3,150 Ohio Eleventh Graders -- This is a summary of the results of an Ohio study which supporters of DARE say shows that DARE really does work.  We have asked the DARE supporters to supply the full text of the report, rather than just a brief summary, so we may post it here.  We will post it as soon as it is received, but as of this writing (November, 1998) we have been asking for full text for several months and have not received it.  If you happen to know anyone at DARE who could supply a copy, please have them send it.
• Assessing the Effects of School-Based Drug Education:   A Six-Year Multi-Level Analysis of Project D.A.R.E. by Dennis P. Rosenbaum, Ph.D. Professor and Head and Gordon S. Hanson, Ph.D. Research Associate Department of Criminal Justice and Center for Research in Law and Justice University of Illinois at Chicago April 6, 1998

Youth, Drugs, and Driving

Self-Estimates and Objective Measurement of BRAC in Young French Drivers: A Field Study and its Preventive Aspects

Values and Motivations of Young Drivers: Key Components of Impaired Driving Countermeasures

Alcohol Restrictions for Novice Drivers

Juvenile DWI Offenders in Austria

Profile of Adolescent Drinking Drivers

Statistics

Trends in Adolescent Use (DEA Chart)

Study: Teen Drug Use Rises Dec. 15, 1995