Education Zone – Curriculum

While policy makers debate the finer points of harm reduction versus prevention, and schools struggle to squeeze in a single hour of drug education between standardised tests, real kids are making real decisions about substance use with potentially lifelong consequences. The statistics paint a picture that should make us all uncomfortable: nearly two-thirds of 18-year-olds

SUMMARY: Australian youth harm minimisation drug policies increased substance use and harm and were inferior to American abstinence polices. When Australia adopted abstinence polices, substance use and harm reduced Professor John Toumbourou, Deakin University. View PDF

Learning is Education that Transforms: Education changes behaviour, but what ‘kind’ of education does this? Whilst we will examine key aspects of the Harms done by New/Novel Psychoactive Substances, what we don’t want to do is waste your time simply inventorying descriptive data about types and variants and impact, that may or may not give

  COURSE OUTLINE Introduction ​Drug Free Australia is pleased to offer a suite of health education modules, with a focus on Drug Use Prevention. ‘Save Your Brain’ (SYB) is available in age-appropriate formats from Years 5 to 12, and is linked to the Australian Curriculum.  SYB promotes an understanding of how the brain develops throughout

Protective Factor Number One in Drug Use Prevention Science: In Denying or Delaying Uptake of Substances the Key Protective Factor for Your Children/Students is the “Belief that Drug are Bad” Latest research out of University of Illinois, and not before time, has published what has been intuitively known for decades – That is that the

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