|  | Conditions Treatments | Drug Addiction

Substance Abuse Treatment & Curriculum

In order to prevent substance abuse, educators should take advantage of curriculum available that will give them tools and techniques to use with students. Additionally, they will learn about substance abuse treatment to recommend when necessary.

  1. Importance of Training

    • The Partnership for a Drug Free America reports that not every program will be effective on every person. This makes it especially important for professionals to understand the various treatment methods.

    LifeSkills

    • The Botvin Lifeskills curriculum trains teachers to help integrate the collection of useful skills into student's lives to help them avoid the societal influences that might lead them into substance abuse.

    Project ALERT

    • Project Alert is a program geared toward teens. The program is designed to motivate youth against using drugs and teaching them how to resist elements in their lives that may be enticing them to abuse drugs or alcohol.

    Al-Anon

    • Al-Anon offers free subscriptions for professionals and educators to updated information on helping young people dealing with a substance abuser in their family and helps them not to become abusers themselves.

    Recommending Treatment

    • When an educator needs to help recommend substance abuse treatment, DrugFree.org offers resources to help assist the student and his family in finding the right one.

Drug Addiction - Related Articles