Abstract
WHETHER or not teachers wish to teach about legal or illegal drugs depends, at least partially, on whether such teaching can be effective. Finding out the effects of such teaching is not easy, and it is tempting to fall back on a pre conception that a purticular teaching approach is self- evidently either effective or counter-productive. However, neither pupils' nor teachers' expectations of the effects upon them of lessons about drugs, nor pupils' immediate reactions to lessons, are a reliable guide to the actual effects of the lessons in the longer-term: to discover these effects, careful follow-up and research is necessary.
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