Teaching students the skills of making decisions is an integral part of many drug education programs. A series of studies is reported here that looked at the attitudes towards making decisions by several groups of students. Because different age groups perceive making decisions differently we need to take maturational levels into consideration when designing decision-making processes for students.
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