which method is more effective way to prevent alcohol and drug abuse among our youth?

Question

A) prohibition and intervention
B) providing education, health care, after school activities and opportunities and other intervention programs

the ones who have chosen A; PLEASE TELME WHY IT ISN'T WORKING THEN?!

parents are being blamed?! lets assume you are correct. these inappropriate parents were the youth yesterday. they were raised in a society who went with plan A which failed! so lets invest on the parents of tomorrow!!

Answer 1

It would be good to have some of both, but if a choice has to be made, B would be best because it's aimed at prevention.

Answer 2

I don't blame parents for the problems of their children. I have known very good, loving, moral parents who have had problems with their kids. All this does is put a burden of guilt upon people who often do not deserve it.

First, we should halt the "War on Drugs." It is a dismal failure, and we have to admit that, if the demand didn't exist, there would be no supply and no reason for the war.

In my view, the legalization of drugs would help halt drug use. By this, I don't mean that cocaine or heroin should be sold over the counter. I think that medically-run, free, legal places of supply should be provided for addicts who are otherwise going to commit crimes to get the money for their habits.

I think marijuana should be separated from the list of prohibited drugs. It is widely-used, is not addictive, and can be home grown. It also seems to be medically helpful. Fighting against it seems to be an exercise in futility.

If addicts could get their drugs legally, it would help the crime problem and eventually end the careers of the drug peddlars. In an ideal world, there should also be a sufficient number of ReHab Centers for those who want to kick their habits.
Our country would save millions of dollars with a program like this. Plus, it would halt the fraud and theft that goes on in the confiscation of property and cash that is a huge problem today.

Afterschool programs, education, etc. are always helpful. But teens are teens. A prohibited substance is always a temptation. God created humans to pull away from the parents at certain ages and explore life on their own. Unfortunately, this exploration often includes forbidden fruits. That will never change until we are born at age 40.

Answer 3

Prohibition and intervention are the best ways to curb alcoholism and drug addiction because giving education instead encourages the youth to indulge in said vices with the hope of being rehabilitated if caught.

Answer 4

The answer is "A". Prohibition and intervention is working for drug abuse. The Surgeon General partly blames adults for underage drinking.

Also, the best method is not mentioned. That method is promoting healthy marriages. Out of wedlock childbirths is a primary cause of drug and alcohol abuse. Children need two parent households and Democrats are against the President's Healthy Marriage Initiative.

Fact: Every 35 seconds a child is born out of marriage.
Fact: 75% of welfare goes to single family households.

"three quarters of this aid flows to single parent families.Children raised without a father in the home are more likely to experience: emotional and behavioral problems, school failure; drug and alcohol abuse, crime, and incarceration.The beneficial effects of marriage on individuals and society are beyond reasonable dispute, and there is a broad and growing consensus that government policy should promote rather than discourage healthy marriage."
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/tst021005a.cfm

Answer 5

Bring the bible BACK into the schools.....God has been out of our schools for decades now...and now even the mention of Christmas is being banned...and we wonder why the steady progression down....why the biggest problems in schools in the 1940's were things like...chewing gum in class...talking without raising hand...to today where we have to worry about some kid getting a gun and taking out his entire class.....someday people will open their eyes..and hopefully it won't be too late...but never wonder why the steady downward spiral the more away from God our schools go......even that won't solve the problem 100%...there will ALWAYS be kids who will push the limits....but it would become the exception instead of the norm....

Answer 6

I would have to say 'B' and this should, of course, start in the home.

- I miss the days when one parent stayed home. I wish more parents would realize that the most valuable thing they can give to their kids is themselves.

Parents can never and should never rely upon the system to deter their children or, allow themselves to feel a false sense of security while relying upon 'A.'

Those parents who forgo their obligations to educate their kids on the dangers and ramifications of illegal drug use, while naively relinquishing this responsibility to the schools or, authorities, may someday find themselves in the position of having to relinquish all control while staring at their kids through the bars of a prison cell or, worse yet, have to face giving their children over to a mortician.

It happens too often to otherwise wonderful and loving parents, whose only fault was a lack of both self-education and parental education.

Answer 7

I think we should stiffen the Punishments. And give suspected drug and alcohol abusers. A taste of what it's gonna be like. Should they continue down that path.
...The youth, have no concept of what they're doing. A few nights in Prison, after being connected with either? Would go along way to bring reality to their door step. Good Question

Answer 8

B)
But I would like to add a C) if you don't mind.

C) Stop Affirmative Action and Vietnam Protesting Hippy Liberal Drug-Advocating Teachers from programming American Children

Answer 9

i think A would be most effective but both need to be exercised.

either way our youth will still find ways to get it and will use it because of peer pressure and its socially accepted and by teens and college students as the cool thing to do

mahal u actually think just because u keep it out of ur home thats going to stop them from using.i don't know how old u r but i'm 19 going on 20 and when i was in school i knew a lot of people who smoke weed and i knew their parents wasn't hitten the bong with them and would have never allowed weed into there household

Answer 10

a-bush-f hit the nail on the head. A strong family, plus reducing the influence of the entertainment industry is the way toward encouraging our youth to be something besides chronic spoiled children, even into adulthood.