Understanding Addictive Behavior

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As more women join, or rejoin, the workforce the family structure has been under a great deal of stress.  The women, who used to perform the job of indoctrinating the children in the family’s values and beliefs, have been taken out of the picture for large amounts of time.  To fill this void, schools have taken over the job of teaching family values.  In many cases, almost all education about drugs and the values of use/non-use are left up to the schools because the parents just don’t have the time to connect with their children about this important topic.  So I believe it is important for the high school to provide drug education to its student body.  

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The typical high school health class doesn’t spend most of its time on drug facts or on teaching the values of staying away from drug use.  The value message that many families are expecting the school’s health program to teach is watered down.  From a student’s perspective, the schools seem to be mixing the messages about drug facts, drug effects and reasons a person might use drugs.  The classes themselves are boring and repetitive with regard to the clinical affects of drugs.  Schools seem, more and more, to be teaching the belief that not only will drugs be used ...

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