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School Methamphetamine Education

One of the most effective strategies in the fight against meth is to educate youth about the damaging health and life-threating effects of the drug and its effect on their future. For that reason, many county schools sponsor meth education programs designed to prevent youth from ever trying meth.

School methamphetamine education programs most often involve presentations provided from a meth action team member to a group of students in a school. In some cases an outside speaker, often a member of law enforcement or a health care professional, is brought to deliver a presentation at a school. These traditional models work effectively in providing information and resources to students. School meth education also involves training educational professionals and staff to give meth presentations and to include information about meth in their curriculum.

Several of the meth action teams reported that members of youth leadership or prevention groups, often the same youth active with the Youth Meth Summits, have given presentations to school groups, and have had a very positive experience. In addition, the Lewis County Meth Task Force has initiated contacts with youth in alternative schools in that county.

A number of presentations have been and continue to be provided throughout Washington Counties. For example, The Clark County YMAT gave 78 meth awareness presentations in 2005-2006, reaching approximately 1,900 youth. In Gig Harbor, a group of high school students who are part of the group Teens Empowered Against Meth initiated a petition drive to ask pharmaceutical companies to create pseudo-ephedrine free products (WSMI Hot Sheet, March, 2006).