Opportunities for School-Based Drug Education: Implications From the Ontario Schools Drug Surveys, 1977–1985
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school-based education, adolescents, student surveys, Ontario, substance use, health educationAbstract
Five Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario student surveys since 1977 have implications for drug education. They show trends in drug use—motivations for it, factors associated with it. This paper describes challenges facing school systems, and ways of meeting them.
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