One Psychiatrist's View of Drug Education

Abstract

Formal education about drug abuse occurs in seminars and lectures for teachers, and in classrooms for students. Both groups may suffer from inadequate or distorted information because many crucial questions have not been answered and the demand for justification of social and medical reactions to the problem has put pressure on for premature intellectual closure. The author recommends a panel discussion of experts who disagree on some issues for the teacher's seminar, and a more dispassionate, less directive approach in the classroom than presently exists.