Peer Group Approach to Drug Education

Abstract

Since our drug raid during the Fall of 1969 and the present application of the peer group approach much has been explored concerning the changing of attitudes and behavior. The complexities of the learning process, including the student, methodology and materials, must be re-examined.

Drugs are not the problem. Finding ways to communicate so that the student has a chance to involve himself actively in the learning process is the secret. An active exchange of honest information will, in the long run, provide more lasting impact.

Many approaches to solving the drug problem are being tried. The main advantage of the peer group approach is that we are involving students to help us with a mutual problem. The realization that students are an untapped resource to help society influence others is the hope of the seventies.