Knowledge and Discipline Lead to Trust and Self Preservation  Just as Fear and Ignorance Lead to Shame, Greed, Illness, and  Death


DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION BREAKTHROUGH

Drug Use Education

Medical Drug Administration & First Aid Skills
 For Personal Safety & the Safety of OthersI

 Our children become what they learn.  Since the 1960s, France has been the only nation to adopt mandatory first aid medical training in the primary school  curriculum, enabling all citizens to partake in strengthening their nation's healthcare, sharing the responsibility by helping themselves and each other.    Meanwhile, the U.S. that had been regarded the leader in medicine during the post WWII era,  released a drug policy that curbed public responsibility by injecting fear and ignorance into society that it thought would protect American citizens from the scourge of drug abuse.  Rather than inducting a team with medical education and experience to guide society, the U.S. Government decided upon a military approach to control drugs.  Because teaching first aid conflicts with stringent U.S. drug policy that portrays the public as helpless with no self-sustaining control over drugs, teaching the public first aid and how to use drugs properly has always been a contradiction.,  

 When the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) published the World Health Report that ranked France -- the nation whose healthcare is the fourth higherst in cost -- number one in performance among the 190 UN member nations with healthcare systems.  World renowned as the highest in cost, the healhcare system in the U.S. placed a dismal 38 in performance.  It was a shock that resounded throughout the globlal healthcare industry. 

As elite American scholars continue to dispute not only the results of the UN study, but also the process implemented by the WHO in ranking each nation, there is a great deal of clarity from down inside the trenches where the gap between physicians and patients has disabled all communication.  

In comparison to France and all other nations clustered to the left side of the graph above, the U.S. appears to be a distant island in a determination of each nation's healthcare performance-cost  ratio, in which, fair-costing healthcare services fall within the range between 0.01 and 3.0. 

  

  U.S. healthcare performance-cost efficiency ratio was by far the worst imaginable with Switzerland second with a ratio of 20/2 = 10.

If Americans choose to reject the findings in the World Health Report 2000, or the grave evidence exptrapolated from it, what cannot be ignored are the body counts of drug abusers.

In the North American region -- particularly, the U.S., drug-induced mortality continues to rise with the highest percentage per capita globally..

 How poignant that the solutions to reform healthcare, prevent drug abuse, gun control,  and improve our society rests within the boundaries of K12 education and what each individual brings from that education and not  increasing healthcare costs, funding the War on Drugs, banning drugs and "assault weapons", hiring more law enforcement officers, or building more prisons.   

 

Parents Who Care Teach Their Kids
 To Do the Right Thing

We don't teach our kids to mumble; we teach them to talk.   We don't teach our kids to stumble; we teach them to walk.  We wouldn't  teach our kids the wrong answer to a math problem or how to spell a word incorrectly; we want them to spell it the right way; we want our kids to have the right answers... to everything. except how to be responsible citizens in a world of drugs and substances. 

 The answer is not a drug-free world.  The answer is a drug-educated world which maintains a focus on medical drug use.  The cause of drug abuse is largely an educational deficiency that results when law enforcement and other persons of authority use drug abuse awareness programs to present a myopic prejudicial view of drugs that criminalizes the sick.  (Richard Paey) while it serves the interest of those delivering the awareness information.

Drug Abuse Awareness is The Wrong Answer
Because It Teaches Kids How to Abuse Drugs

Drug abuse awareness is a fear-based informational tool that propagates knowledge about the undesirable behavior as a foundation for presenting the dangers it causes but without disclosing corrective safe drug use guidelines because it supports abstinence as the only alternative to drug abuse.  It may only take a few seconds for a K12 student to be driven to make use of the information learned during an awareness program, or it could take many years before the adult graduate is confronted by the opportunity to abuse a drug,  Throughout 4 years of interviewing illicit drug users for two in-depth drug user case history studies (Stanford, 2004; UCLA, 2006),  about 70% of those who attended DARE, or comparable awareness program,  revealed it had influenced their decision to use an illicit drug.  Of that 70%, 34% said that they might have never abused an illicit drug had it not been for the discouragement they had from an awareness program.   All of them became routine drug users after discovering the drug had produced benefits in their lives.   

Evidence shows how DARE and other drug abuse awareness programs promote drug abuse rather than prevent it.

Another Wrong Answer

Drug abuse / addiction training for healthcare  practitioners, "raises the level of fear", while drawing upon prejudicial attitudes towards patients as the  practitioner makes decisions about treatment.  Providers are encouraged to determine who is abusing drugs.  Quite often the practitioner's empathetic availability is compromised as patient visits suddenly become incidents of "drug-seeking behavior".  An indoctrinated practitioner becomes a source of danger to patients, requiring a controlled substance medication for pain relief or to treat a chronic or acute medical disorder. The practitioner reduces, stops, or never administers medication that is necessary.   The patient becomes a victim of healthcare. 


THE MEDICATION YOUR PROVIDER IS PRESCRIBING isn't an atomic bomb!  It shouldn't seem like one.  If you find that your provider is redirecting you to a reduced quantity or quality of a controlled substance medication or fails to provide you any medication that you need, send an email to safety@druguseeducation.org  describing what occurred along with the any information you can disclose about your physician.  Provide examples of how your physician's behavior  is impacting your life.

 
The Right Answer

Drug Use Education

Drug use is not a crime, disease, or disorder; it is a normal human behavior characterized by the need for mandatory public education, providing besic and advanced first aid, fundamental pharmacotherapeutic knowledge and discipline skills in drug administration to ensure adherence to dose / frequency / duration calculations and the ability to continually assess individual response to therapy. 

Drug Use Education, the paradigm proposed in the Drug Use Education Process Initiative (DPI), applies conventional evidence-based education in the delivery of mandatory first aid, drug administration training, along with medical and pharmacology instruction for all K12 students in classrooms, online, and within local community and teaching hospitals where students learn from medical and administrative staff while participating in studies, projects, voluntary roles, and perhaps even paid work assignments while optionally undergoing individual and group evaluations by qualified health care professionals.

SAFETY; NOT ABSTINENCE IS THE PRIORITY of the only educational program that can  deliver sensible training for K12 students comprised of Basic and Advanced First Aid training proposed by the National Academy of Sciences in the EMS White Paper (1966); Drug Administration, including dose calculations;  Personal Medical Management that will enable citizens to handle routine illness and enable patients to communicate better with providers, reducing the incidence of discrimination; Nutrition and Pharmacology that provides a solid foundation of how medicine and food interact with the human body; and, Safety and Discipline Skills that will form an integral part of all course work and activity. This is education that builds PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY.   

The Drug Use Education Process  demonstrates how broader interpretations of pharmacotherapeutic necessity can transform adverse social behavior into individualized and safely self-administered  medical care, extending the privilege for equal drug access  to adult citizens following completion of K12 medical and pharmacology education, and / or post-graduate training and licensing with the purposes to provide basic and advanced first aid medical support, treat common disorders, disease, and injuries independent of a medical practitioner, and enhance the quality of healthcare encounters at every stage of life, while permitting medically beneficial responsible drug use, thus, mitigating due process violations and the demand for illicit substances.  The DUE Process model was cast as the centerpiece of the Drug Use Education Process Initiative submitted to Senator Dianne Feinstein in March 2008.  The DUE Process Model was inspired by President Lyndon Johnson’s 1966 program enforcing motor vehicle safety.

If the safety of our youth is important, then
 Drug Use Education holds the best answer.

110 YEARS OF CAR AND DRUG FATALITIES reveals Motor Vehicle Safety Education led to a reduction in fatalities from motor vehicle accidents while the War on Drugs demonstrates a continuous escalation in drug-induced mortality.   Evidence shows that rather than providing "safety" education for drugs, the U.S. Government provided  drugs that emphasized the abuse of drugs and triggered the bad behavior.  Because implementation of a Drug Use Education program in the U.S. has not yet been possible, a simulation program had been devised and developed and is now being used to predict future outlook.  A scaled down model using mathematical calculations could not be completed. 

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