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Johnston, Lloyd D. – 1988
After a brief overview of the size and nature of illicit drug use observed among American adolescents and young adults over the past 20 years, this paper argues that the nation's reliance on supply reduction as its primary strategy for controlling drug abuse has been unsuccessful. Of the two approaches to demand reduction--coercive techniques…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drug Abuse, Drug Education, Educational Objectives