This document begins with an article on what drug abuse is and how educators can deal with it. The annotated listing which follows is divided into sections on drug abuse, drug education, alcohol abuse, alcohol education, and venereal disease. Journal articles constitute the majority of the generally post-1971 entries; research studies, books,…

A mailed survey was conducted of students' opinions on issues relevant to the university's policy toward the consumption of alcoholic beverages on campus. Responses were received from 402 members of a random sample of 496 students from the Twin Cities Campus of the University of Minnesota. Key findings include: A majority of respondents believed…

High school students' knowledge of alcohol and its use is measured by a test composed of 76 five option multiple choice items. Areas covered include definition of terms, physical effects, psychological effects, the disease concept of alcoholism, treatment and prevention, socio-economic factors, and safety factors. Mean scores by age and sex for a…

This bibliography consists of a total of 215 entries dealing with drug education, including curriculum guides, and drawn from documents in the ERIC system. There are two sections, the first containing 130 annotated citations of documents and journal articles, and the second containing 85 citations of journal articles without annotations, but with…

Alcohol abuse prevention education encourages participants to make choices, to set safe drinking standards, and to detect questionable practices before they lead to problems. (MM)

The use of substance (drug and alcohol) abuse prevention and education is commonly found in the school. In order to determine what substance services are currently being provided, and to see what services appear desirable for implementation in the schools, this assessment was conducted on schools in a two-county metropolitan area. (Author)

A BASIC computer program is given that simulates the effects of alcohol. A student enters his/her weight, the number of hours of drinking, the kind of alcoholic beverage consumed, and the number of drinks consumed. The program also prints the resulting effect on behavior. (MP)

Treatment agencies that ignore needs of children of alcoholics are inadvertently breeding a second generation of alcoholics. This paper reports on an effort to mount an education/prevention effort with children of alcoholics and their mothers. Each session is described in detail and recommendations for programming offered. (Author)

At the present time, the soundest instructional approach in helping students to clarify their attitudes and behaviors toward alcohol use/abuse is to separate it from other components of drug education and treat it as a separate subject area. (MJB)

A comparative survey of university students who had taken a course on alcohol education and those who had not indicated that alcohol education has some effect in modifying behavior and attitudes toward drinking. (JD)

Reports results of a six-month pilot program conducted in a rural southeastern county to identify and exploit any benefits from a county alcohol abuse evaluation and referral service formed in response to requests from the local judicial system. Indicated that most courts in the county were using the system and that 168 clients had been processed…

Results of a study of 47 smoking and 29 alcohol school-based programs indicate that smoking and alcohol interventions have modest effects on immediate behavioral outcomes. Smoking interventions have been more successful than alcohol interventions at altering students' long-term behavior. (JOW)

Investigated credibility of sources of information about alcohol among high school students (N=76). Students rated their own experience with alcohol and the information provided by a recovered alcoholic as most credible and rated the information provided by a friend who drinks as least credible. (Author/ABL)

Discusses issues complicating the message of alcohol education, including the ambivalent nature of alcohol itself, personal uncertainty about the effects of alcohol, and moral issues. Suggests that the schools may be too involved in alcohol education and risk losing credibility with students. (JAC)

Reports the impact of a two-theme, multimedia responsible alcohol use campaign for a college campus. Measures of awareness of campaign themes included interviews, unobtrusive observation, and a mailed survey. Results showed that the campaign affected student awareness of responsible alcohol use themes. (Author/BH)