A Different Dose of Drug Education.

The article reports that the drug education's new curriculum encourages high schoolers to abstain from substance use but acknowledges not all of them will. It mentions that National Health Education Standards and Common Core learning standards, the roughly 45-minute lessons range from covering how drugs work and various harm-reduction strategies to the effects, risks and benefits of different types of substances, including alcohol , marijuana, e-cigarettes and prescription and other opioids.