Drug Abuse and the Schools
J. THOMAS UNGERLEIDER M.D.1, and
HASKELL L. BOWEN 2
1 Assistant professor of psychiatry, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024
2 Director, Drug Abuse Information Center, County of Santa Clara Office of Education, 70 W. Hedding St., San Jose, Calif. 95110
The authors describe some of the observations they made while working with California high school students in the area of drug abuse. Preventive programs, they emphasize, must include the development of open communication about drugs. Applying the ombudsman approach to drug problems within the schools is one effective way of achieving this. Several illustrations of this approach are cited.
