Drug Awareness Programme

Drug Abuse has been considered as an important curricular concern in school education for quite some time that there is a need for proper networking among different agencies to facilitate effective organization of programme drug abuse. Various media reports also underline the urgent need to address the issue at school level in a system population gets inundated with a lot of information coming from different sources, it becomes the responsibility providing the right information as well as skills to make a wise choice for a healthy living. One of the speed Adolescence Education is “to make the learners aware of the causes and consequences of drug abuse and rational attitude as well as the skills to say ‘no’ to drugs”.

Schools should make concerted efforts to integrate both curricular as well as co-curricular approach components that are already incorporated in different subjects can be highlighted for raising the awareness of student abuse and the ways of preventing drug abuse.

Apart from the curricular intervention, co-curricular activities through an informal mode can also be organized to opportunities for students to acquire the basic life skills to behave assertively and to say ‘No’ to drugs. Some action in this regard are suggested below:

• Sensitization through formal and informal discussions.
• Awareness raising among students by organizing interactive sessions with experts in the field.
• Strengthening the counselling component by sensitizing school counsellors to handle issues connected.
• Educating children by involving local nodal agencies working in the field of Narcotics Control, Social Justice.
• Empowering children by organizing specifically designed co-curricular activities such as role play, value etc.

Schools can add to this list of activities depending on their local needs and availability of resources. Timely empower the children so that they do not fall victims to the obnoxious habit of substance abuse. The CBSE Board will realize the importance of addressing this serious concern by putting in action.