{"id":1901,"date":"2009-07-17T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2016-09-16T00:02:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T00:02:37","slug":"the-european-%e2%80%9cschools-health-education-unit%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/the-european-%e2%80%9cschools-health-education-unit%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"The European \u201cSchools Health Education Unit\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European \u201cSchools Health Education Unit\u201d survey questioned 15881 teenagers at 334 primary schools and found that 29% of 14 and 15-year old males had tried cannabis in 2001 compared to 19% in 1999. The proportion of 14 and 15-year-old girls who had smoked cannabis had also risen from 18% in 1999 to 25% in 2001. One of the leading causes for this sky-rocketing drug use was that the perception of harmfulness of cannabis (and drugs in general)is decreasing. The implementation of student drug testing in schools can give students a clear signal that illegal drug use is not tolerated in society and a reason to say &#8216;NO&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: right;\">Source: The study on Random Student Drug Testing was conducted by Dr.Ivan van Damme. Read more on this subject at: www.eurad.net\/ options\/Student%20drug%20testing.htm<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European \u201cSchools Health Education Unit\u201d survey questioned 15881 teenagers at 334 primary schools and found that 29% of 14 and 15-year old males had tried cannabis in 2001 compared to 19% in 1999. The proportion of 14 and 15-year-old girls who had smoked cannabis had also risen from 18% in 1999 to 25% in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-uk","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}