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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's always gonna be an overdose in Wakefield. It's the new normal. No-one actually cares to address the root cause so I guess we will now just have to stick to short term solutions such as narcan.[/quote]

Schools can only do so much. Generally speaking, they aren't the cause; but everyone seems to expect them to solve the problem.
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No one is expecting them to solve the addiction crisis and drug crisis plaguing our society. However they can implement policies that decrease the chance that drugs will be used on campus.[/quote]

Please give examples of such policies. Also, if you think Wakefield is the only APS high school with drug use, you’re very naive.  [/quote]

Where did I say that Wakefield is the only school that has a drug use problem? Why on earth would you make that assumption?

As for policies this is an example:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-new-d-a-r-e-program-this-one-works/

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (a government agency) maintains a national registry of evidence based programs and policies that schools can use. The NIH also has a publication where it reviews evidence based interventions for preventing drug abuse in youth that relies on the registry I mentioned. My cousin is a mental health counselor in New York and told me that the SAMHSA is a great resource that is under utilized by schools.

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Forgot to add, other than Keeping It Real, Lifeskills and Project Alert are two other evidence based programs that work.   The key is that all three of these programs, as well as the ones recommended by SAMHSA do not focus on specific drugs or adopt scare tactics. Instead they empower kids and help them develop the skills they need to avoid drug use. There is a lot that APS can do that doesn't involve them turning the schools into prisons.
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Ok. So more programs, not policies.
Are you proposing to add these programs into the health/PE curriculum, or what? [/quote]

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