Morton Silverman, director of the Student Counseling and Research Service at the University of Chicago, talks about the need for drug education to be a collaborative and life-long effort. Excerpted from the video series Schools That Work: The Research Advantage, videoconference #6, Preparing Students for Drug-Free Lifestyles (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, 1992).
"I don't think the responsibility for prevention should fall on any one for or any one program or any one setting. It has to be collaborative. It has to be comprehensive. It's a life long process. It doesn't start and stop. I believe very much in the concept of booster shots, that even if you've been immunized against a particular problem, everyone should receive booster shots along the way, because no immunization lasts for life."
This Critical Issue was researched and written by Richard Brooks, Director, Health Promotion Project, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Date posted: 1996