PEDIATRICS Vol. 53 No. 4 April 1974, pp. 585
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What Kind of Drug Education Do We Need—And for Whom?

Philip R. Nader M.D.1

1 Assoc. Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Director, School Health Program, Division of Education and Research in Community Child Health Care, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77550

Congratulations on publishing the "Outcomes of Drug Education" by Drs. Tennant, Weaver and Lewis. It may be of interest to report other case studies to further question the "efficacy" of so-called drug education even at elementary level. In one study elementary children's attitudes as measured by a semantic differential were uniformly negative toward drugs and were not affected by a drug education course which consisted mostly of descriptions of the various drugs, their dangers and the legal implications.