As students, many of us are frustrated with drug education scare tactics full of exaggerations and inaccuracies. We want drug education that is credible and encourages critical questioning. We have seen too many of our classmates and friends cast out of the school community under zero-tolerance policies that ignore the welfare of people who need help.

Students’ voices should be a critical part of the development of drug education programs at our schools. Educate your teachers and administrators about a new model for honest, reality-based drug education with interactive learning, compassionate assistance and restorative practices in lieu of exclusionary punishment. Please take the time to critically examine an approach the federal government is promoting on a wide-scale basis: random student drug testing. Students throughout the country are organizing to oppose this invasive technique that treats young people as if they are guilty until proven innocent.

Join us at the Safety First Project in advocating for reality-based approaches to drug education at home and in school that foster open and honest dialogue around the risks and consequences of drug use. Through accessing balanced and science-based information you can learn about the effects of today’s most prevalent drugs. By sharing these materials with your parents and other important adults in your lives, you can open up important conversations.

“Society relies on schools to prepare students for the world. This world, like it or not, includes drugs. If young people are to make the right choices in the face of this and other challenges, we must be armed with the facts, and we must learn them in an atmosphere of trust. No one knows this better than students ourselves, so we must be the ones to remind our parents and educators what we need in order to be able to join them as responsible adults.” - Allegra Stout, senior at Montville Township High School in New Jersey.

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