The
demand for effective drug education continues
to grow and in the opening term of the last school
year Narconon Drug Education lecturers reached
5,191 school children with their presentations.
There are now nine Narconon lecturers covering
the UK and this number is scheduled to rise to
20 before the end of the current school year.
In the period between September and December,
lectures were delivered in Shropshire, Glasgow,
Bolton, York, Harrogate, Plymouth, London, Birmingham,
Surrey, Berkshire, Sussex, Bedfordshire, Hampshire
and Wiltshire.
There
is no question that effective drug education programmes
do bite into the problem and make genuine inroads.
Sweden, which has the lowest instance of drug
abuse or drug experimentation in Europe amongst
its youth, cite preventative drug education as
a key factor in their success and the Swedish
government have accordingly put millions of krona
into this activity. Around 9% of 14-15 year olds
in their country experiment with drugs, whereas
in the UK it’s just under 40%!!
In
the near future Narconon Drug Education will be
delivering some regional seminars for teachers,
enabling them to deliver an extended version of
one of the drug education modules, which would
stretch over several weekly PHSE periods. Additionally,
there will be posters produced for primary schools,
with cartoons illustrating basic preventative
aspects of our format. The whole team at Narconon
Drug Education is looking forward to next twelve
months being a sea change year in the prevailing
attitudes of many youth towards drugs.
