Drug Education: Reasons and Failures

1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron V. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Political System ◽  
Drug Education ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Cognitive Education ◽  
Corporate System ◽  
The Face

This paper contains 50 “reasons” which various individuals or groups have used to explain increasing drug abuse by youth. The reasons, listed generally from simple to complex, are grouped into 10 categories: criminal elements, minorities, youth, adults, homes, schools, churches, corporate system, political system and society. The implication is clear that the interplay of reasons for increasing drug abuse in our society is extremely complicated and that educational or remedial programs built upon simplistic cause-models will be relatively ineffective. Contributions that cognitive education can make to eliminating the problem of drug abuse are limited and may be counterproductive. The species-adaptive curiosity and gambling instinct (attraction to try for possible short term gain in the face of possible long term damage) will not be educated from mankind and evaluation of drug abuse education programs based upon eliminating drug abuse is unrealistic. In spite of this, the conclusion is developed that thorough, honest drug education is necessary.

Graduate Medical Education in Otolaryngology: Making Dollars and Sense of Reform

2021 ◽  
pp. 019459982110042
Author(s):  
Jenny X. Chen ◽  
Shivani A. Shah ◽  
Vinay K. Rathi ◽  
Mark A. Varvares ◽  
Stacey T. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Graduate Medical Education ◽  
Resident Training ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Graduate Medical ◽  
Departmental Leadership ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
The Face ◽  
Funding Cuts

Graduate medical education (GME) is funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services through both direct and indirect payments. In recent years, stakeholders have raised concerns about the growth of spending on GME and distribution of payment among hospitals. Key stakeholders have proposed reforms to reduce GME funding such as adjustments to statutory payment formulas and absolute caps on annual payments per resident. Otolaryngology departmental leadership should understand the potential effects of proposed reforms, which could have significant implications for the short-term financial performance and the long-term specialty workforce. Although some hospitals and departments may elect to reduce resident salaries or eliminate positions in the face of GME funding cuts, this approach overlooks the substantial Medicare revenue contributed by resident care and high cost of alternative labor sources. Commitment to resident training is necessary to align both the margin and mission of otolaryngology departments and their sponsoring hospitals.

Drug Education: What it is and Isn't

1972 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Grant
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Change Agent ◽  
Drug Abusers ◽  
Drug Education ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Political Implications

Drug education is a term that has many meanings. It is important that the drug educator assess his own values regarding drug use in our society, then share them freely. His values, however, should not dictate or completely overshadow rationality and honesty. Youth particularly need to know where the educator stands. To think that one can develop drug education programs that are value-free is naive. The drug educator's values, coupled with some operational assumptions, will provide the basis and direction of drug education. Drug education content must include the physiological, pharmacological, psychological, legal, moral, spiritual, and political implications of drug use in our society. This content must be presented in a way that utilizes peer values and settings. The use of ex-drug abusers should be approached rationally and humanly. Drug educators aren't going to make any difference at all, in terms of preventing drug abuse, until they view their role as being that of a “change agent.”

15. Democracies, Democratization, and Authoritarian Regimes

2020 ◽  
pp. 336-362
Author(s):  
Peter Ferdinand
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Short Term ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Types Of Democracy ◽  
The Face ◽  
Long Term Trends

This chapter focuses on democracies, democratization, and authoritarian regimes. It first considers the two main approaches to analysing the global rise of democracy over the last thirty years: first, long-term trends of modernization, and more specifically economic development, that create preconditions for democracy and opportunities for democratic entrepreneurs; and second, the sequences of more short-term events and actions of key actors at moments of national crisis that have precipitated a democratic transition — also known as ‘transitology’. The chapter proceeds by discussing the different types of democracy and the strategies used to measure democracy. It also reviews the more recent literature on authoritarian systems and why they persist. Finally, it examines the challenges that confront democracy in the face of authoritarian revival.

scholarly journals High performance leadership in unusually challenging educational circumstances

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Hargreaves ◽  
Alma Harris
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Past Performance ◽  
High Performing ◽  
The Face ◽  
Oecd Pisa ◽  
And Performance

This paper draws on findings from the results of a study of leadership in high performing organizations in three sectors. Organizations were sampled and included on the basis of high performance in relation to no performance, past performance, performance among similar peers and performance in the face of limited resources or challenging circumstances. The paper concentrates on leadership in four schools that met the sample criteria.  It draws connections to explanations of the high performance ofEstoniaon the OECD PISA tests of educational achievement. The article argues that leadership in these four schools that performed above expectations comprised more than a set of competencies. Instead, leadership took the form of a narrative or quest that pursued an inspiring dream with relentless determination; took improvement pathways that were more innovative than comparable peers; built collaboration and community including with competing schools; and connected short-term success to long-term sustainability.

scholarly journals Rediscovering Partisanship as the Long Term Force in the Vote Decision

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Michael D Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Vote Choice ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Party Change ◽  
Vote Decision ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
The Face ◽  
Voter Choice ◽  
Panel Studies

While partisanship is commonly conceived as the long term force in the voting decision, most models of voter choice include contemporaneous measures of partisanship, as well as issue preferences and retrospective evaluations as explanatory variables. In this paper, I use four multiyear panel studies spanning half a century to examine how well prior partisanship predicts future vote. Prior partisanship is strongly correlated with later vote choice, but that relationship is weaker during periods of party change, for younger voters and those who do not see differences between the parties, and in the face of strong short term forces. Despite evidence of the endogeneity of partisanship, we should also not lose sight of its long-term value as a predictor of vote choice. 

Climate Change Adaptation in New Zealand

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Schneider ◽  
Bruce Glavovic
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Coastal Hazard ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Long Term Study ◽  
Hazard Risk ◽  
The Face

Coastal hazard risk is compounded by climate change. The promise and prospects of adaptation to escalating coastal hazard risk is fraught, even in a country like New Zealand that has laudable provisions for local authorities to be proactive in adapting to climate change. Continuing property development in some low-lying coastal areas is resulting in contestation and maladaptation. The resistance of some local authorities to do the inevitable and make long-term planning decisions in the face of amplifying risk can be linked to adaptation barriers. What can be done to overcome barriers and facilitate adaptation? Is transformation of the current mismatch between short-term planning and development aspirations, long-term societal goals, dynamic coastal processes and well-intended legislation and policy goals even possible? What can we learn from adaptation failures? In the face of compelling evidence and an enabling institutional framework, why is it that some coastal communities fail to prepare for the future? We shed light on such questions based on a long-term study of experience in New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula. We focus on the overarching question: Why is adaptation so challenging; and why are some coastal communities locked- into maladaptive pathways? We focus on the influence of a short-term decision-making focus of the problem of a low level of understanding and, following from this, the prioritization of protective works to combat erosion. Further, we draw attention to a major storm impact and the failure to turn this window of opportunity to a shift away from business as usual. Through the exploration of key stakeholder insights, the findings from the literature are reinforced and put into local context thus making the otherwise abstract barriers locally relevant. Matching and aligning adaptation theory with local reality can assist in advancing inquiry and policy practice to govern complex adaptation challenges.

Attitudes toward Drugs and Drug Education

1972 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald J. Haggerty ◽  
Stanley Zimering
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Drug Education ◽  
State University ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
Drug Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Relevant Factors

Citing the need to provide drug education for prospective teachers the authors refer to a study conducted to determine the number of colleges that have implemented such a program. Some attention is given to the characteristics related to attitude formation in childhood and the need to begin drug education early, with emphasis being placed on mental health. Supportive data are presented from a survey of students' drug knowledge and practice at State University College, Stony Brook, N.Y., regarding how drug education programs should be taught. Several relevant factors are listed which should be considered in a drug education program from the viewpoint of the students surveyed. The authors conclude that there is probably no more urgent task facing our colleges than planned programs for training teachers in drug abuse education.

Socioeconomic Status and Drug Abuse Prevention in a Metropolitan Region

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-369
Author(s):  
Leslie Horst ◽  
Don C. Des Jarlais
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
School Districts ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Drug Education ◽  
Drug Abuse Prevention ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Community Attitudes ◽  
Team Productivity

Teams of students, teachers, administrators, and others from twenty-eight school districts received training to carry out drug education programs in their home school districts. There was a moderate relationship between the socioeconomic status of a school district and the implementation of drug education programs by its team. Other factors related to the socioeconomic status of a community are discussed in terms of their effect on team productivity: community attitudes toward drug abuse; the capacity of teams to involve parents; and the availability of leisure time. Support from school administrators is seen to be particularly important for teams. Clearly, team success or failure was multiply-determined.

TAXES: TAKING A BITE OUT OF BITCOIN

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry K. Inger ◽  
Mollie E. Mathis
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Virtual Currency ◽  
Accounting Information Systems ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Accounting Courses ◽  
Tax Research ◽  
Functional Areas

ABSTRACTThis tax research case introduces students to virtual currency taxation issues, which are exceedingly important in the global economy. The setting provides an overarching story with three inter-related taxpayers with a variety of transactions: miner, short-term investor, and long-term investor, allowing instructors to assign individuals or groups to one or more scenarios. There is limited primary authority on virtual currency, leading students to relate the virtual currency transactions to existing primary authority. The case learning objectives are: 1) critical thinking, 2) technical knowledge, 3) tax research proficiency, and 4) written communication skills. This case is one of a series of cases using the context of virtual currency in the functional areas of Accounting Information Systems (Cheng and Loraas, 2020), Audit (Dunn, Jenkins and Sheldon 2020), and Financial Accounting (Brandon, Holt, Jones, Long, and Stanley 2020); faculty can implement these cases across a variety of undergraduate and graduate accounting courses.

“The Enthusiasm Expressed by Our Industry Friends”

Vulcan ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-124
Author(s):  
Adam Givens
Keyword(s):  
Long Range ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Us Army ◽  
The Face ◽  
Long Term Consequences ◽  
Fait Accompli

Abstract This article analyzes the groundbreaking 1952 plan by US Army leadership to develop a sizeable cargo helicopter program in the face of interservice opposition. It examines the influence that decision had in the next decade on the Army, the helicopter industry, and vtol technology. The Army’s procurement of large helicopters that could transport soldiers and materiel was neither a fait accompli nor based on short-term needs. Rather, archival records reveal that the decision was based on long-range concerns about the postwar health of the helicopter industry, developing the state of the art, and fostering new doctrinal concepts. The procurement had long-term consequences. Helicopters became central to Army war planning, and the ground service’s needs dictated the next generation of helicopter designs. That technology made possible the revolutionary airmobility concept that the Army took into Vietnam and also led to a flourishing commercial helicopter field.

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