sale of drug paraphernalia and increased the power of police to seize the assets of arrested drug offenders. The Strategy allocated the sum of $210 million in its first five years (and an additional $270 million in 1992) mainly to the prevention, education and treatment of drug use, while 30 per cent of this money was intended for the traditional area of law enforcement. The goal of education within the school system should be to support those students who are non-users with recognition and social activities that will encourage them to remain non-users and to facilitate a belief and value system that incorporates concern for fellow students and residents of the community. Drug education should emphasise the negative aspects of drugs to give the student a fair understanding of the long-term effects of drug use.Building a program for long-term survival, which describes features of prevention programs that can increase a program's survival chances after the initial grant period should be considered a priority. Educators cannot be at the student’s side at all times, especially when the student is faced with pressuring situation affecting the experimentation of drugs. Programs must focus one long-term education that will remain in the students mind long after the program has terminated. One option for educators is to use the tool of fear. If enough fear is put into the students mind in may deter them from ever wanting to experiment with the drugs; or even from becoming curious of their effects.The clear solution to winning to "war on drugs" is to establish a clear long term program. Such a program should include government grants, a description of the health risks associated with the use of alcohol and illicit drugs, standards of conduct that clearly prohibit the unlawful possession, use, or distribution of alcohol and illicit, and a description of the applicable legal sanctions under school, local, state, or federal law for the unlawf...
