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Kids and drugs: The Vancouver teachers transforming substance use education

 

Art Steinmann wanted to revolutionize how we teach kids about drugs. The veteran educator saw that traditional drug education — based on scare tactics and intimidation — just wasn’t working. Worse, it was leaving kids unprepared for the realities of substance use. “It was based on very simplistic, black-and-white moralistic approaches to drugs,” says Steinmann. “You tell kids drugs are bad, they shouldn’t do them, and that the kids are bad if [...]

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