What is wrong with Drug Education researchers?

Boyish-Tigerlilly · Post by **Boyish-Tigerlilly** » 2005-04-02 07:22pm

What the hell is wrong with the majority of research on drug education

1. Most doesn't exist
2. What does exist is usually old, or out of date
3. That which does exist is likely inaccurate (several researches openly admitted their findings were arbitrary, yet they pass them off as fact)
4. Other researchers say the exact opposite, saying programmes don't work, while others say there's no way to tell, since methods for evaluation suck.

1 hilarious researcher I found stated, to paraphrase:

The prevention programmes might yeild benefits x y and z and they may have some success in comparison to other programmes.

After 3 decades of research the best they can come up with is "it might or might not have some benefits?" What the hell?

Other researches just make shit up it seems. For example, they said some of the best benefits come in the form of family attitudes, less crime, less family violence, and increased productivity in the labour market, but how can this be, when other researchers state that

1. Most drug education programmes only yield some results after a very long time later in life

2. Most of the targets are very young children who aren't invovled in the labour market (9-11 year olds)

3. Many people involved in crime are not the ones using drugs, and many who use drugs, aren't involved in crimes.

4. Most drug programmes in schools cannot focus on family issues or problem groupes. It's too difficult and complex to change these factors, which causes a lot of apparent failures.

5. These factors are difficult to quantify, especially since research is in great paucity.

I cannot fathom how some of these damn researchers can come to such "concrete conclusions" while admitting they are arbitrary or in light of the vast evaluative inadequancies.

They might as well chuck darts across a billiard room.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-04-02 07:33pm

But we NEED to educate primary schoolers about what drugs were called in the 50s!

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2005-04-02 07:35pm

Because it's easier to just run Anslinger era propaganda on infinite loop and throw people who don't believe it in jail.

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2005-04-02 08:39pm

I never really paid attention to what the school fed me, since I more or less had firsthand knowledge of what it does to people. But I did a story for my newspaper on the DARE program, and I realized just how stupid it was. It has yielded a 5% decrease in drug use among preteens since its inception. And that's not from an anti-DARE website, either.

xtashinatorx · Post by **xtashinatorx** » 2005-04-02 08:56pm

When we did drug education it was in eighth grade. I had health 1st period. I was way too stoned to pay attention. I just remember for a project my friends and I built a bong out of a soda can. We got an "A."

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2005-04-02 09:35pm

xtashinatorx wrote:When we did drug education it was in eighth grade. I had health 1st period. I was way too stoned to pay attention. I just remember for a project my friends and I built a bong out of a soda can. We got an "A."

Maybe you can make a career out of it and design Houka(?) pipes after you get out of high school. I'm looking to buy one for my medical pot.

xtashinatorx · Post by **xtashinatorx** » 2005-04-02 11:50pm

Cpl Kendall wrote: Maybe you can make a career out of it and design Houka(?) pipes after you get out of high school. I'm looking to buy one for my medical pot.

I'm sorry to inform you my days of drugs and creative bong making are over. I gave that life up a while ago.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2005-04-03 05:22am

It's because most drug studies these days find that marijuana is (compared to some legal substances) pretty harmless. People hear this and instantly conclude that they're a buncha pot-smoking hippies, and ignore what they say, and continue to base their opinions off of Reefer Madness.

Queeb Salaron · Post by **Queeb Salaron** » 2005-04-03 01:39pm

Cpl Kendall wrote:Maybe you can make a career out of it and design Houka(?) pipes after you get out of high school. I'm looking to buy one for my medical pot.

Made a hookah out of a keg once... Took us three months to fabricate, but when we did... hoo boy. I think there were 17 mouthpieces attached.

Never fired it up, though. We could never get our hands on enough... uh... tobacco to make it worth our while.

I think it's at the bottom of a lake somewhere. But I'll call around and see if it's not for sale.