This publication is designed to demonstrate ways of adapting ready-made curricula on drug abuse prevention. It suggests lessons that need to be part of any prevention education sequence and includes actural plans developed by schools and school systems.

"Double Take" is a drug education package produced by the Department of Health and Social Security (United Kingdom). This video package was distributed at no cost to all secondary schools catering to students from eleven years onwards in England and Wales during 1986. This book reports the results of a research evaluation of this educational package, particularly in terms of its acceptability to teachers and pupils. The evaluation discussed in this book was conducted deliberately within the context of organizational and methodological restrictions. The primary concern was less with the potential effectiveness of "Double Take" under optimal conditions. Rather, the investigators were interested in the ways in which teachers themselves chose to adopt and integrate the package within existing courses and with the restrictions of pupils in their schools.

Testimony from a Congressional hearing on drug education is presented in this document. After an opening statement by Representative Major R. Owens, statements are included by Representatives Jose E. Serrano and Cass Ballenger. Testimony and/or prepared statements from these individuals are included: (1) Joseph A. Fernandez, Chancellor, New York City Public Schools; (2) Joan Goodman, District Representative, United Federation of Teachers, Bronx (New York; (3) Davina Ragland and Walesca Sosa, senior high school students, Jane Adams Vocational High School, Bronx (New York); (4) Robert York, Acting Director for Program Evaluation in Human Service Areas, General Accounting Office; (5) Ozelious J. Clement, Director, Jackie Robinson Center for Physical Culture; (6) Vincent Giordano, Director, Office of Substance Abuse Prevention, New York City Public Schools; (7) D. Max McConkey, Director, Network, Inc.; (8) Thomas Connelly, Coordinator, Special Counseling Programs, Wappingers Central School District; (9) Gerald Edwards, Director, North East Regional Center for Drug Free Schools and Communities; and (10) Michael Kiltzner and Allan Y. Cohen, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. (ABL)