Access keys | Skip to primary navigation | Skip to secondary navigation | Skip to content | Skip to footer |
Problems viewing this site
Link to Queensland Government (www.qld.gov.au)
Home | Site map | Contact us | for
Department of Education and Training
DET procedure register > Curriculum provision >

Version: 3.1

CRP-PR-005: Drug Education and Intervention in Schools

The Department of Education and Training ensures that all Queensland state school students have access to drug education programs and provisions for intervention throughout their time at school in the context of curriculum and policy requirements.

Relevant legislation and policy

 Legislation and/or regulations Substantive policy Related procedures

Statement of intent

The Department of Education and Training accepts that it has an important contribution to make to the public health goals of preventing the uptake of harmful drug use and reducing the harmful effects of legal and illicit drugs to individuals and society. The department recognises that teaching young people about the harmful effects of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use is a key preventative measure in the ongoing effort to address drug-related harm.
The Queensland Government endorses harm minimisation as the fundamental principle governing Australia's development of policies and programs to address the negative impact of legal and illicit drugs on our society. Supporting an individual's right to become abstinent, or to not use alcohol, tobacco or other drugs unlawfully, is a significant component of any approach. Harm minimisation approaches aim to maintain open communication about alcohol tobacco and other drug use with people currently using them.
Harm minimisation accepts that, despite our best efforts, some young people will choose to use alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, even some illicit drugs. It does not mean that we, as individuals, or as a system, condone that use. Within this context, however, it should be made clear to students that unlawful drug use and possession of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs at school is not acceptable.
Harm minimisation does not necessarily mean approval of drug use and should not be equated with support for legalisation of all drugs. It is an approach that aims to reduce the adverse health, social and economic consequences of alcohol and other drugs by minimising or limiting the harms and hazards of drug use for both the community and the individual without necessarily eliminating use.
Queensland state schools implement drug education programs which:

Responsibilities

Principal's Supervisor Principal School Staff Central Office

Forms

Guidelines

Other relevant documents

Contacts

For further information regarding drug education, please contact:

Principal Education Officer
Government Liaison and Projects
Phone:
(07) 3237 0314
Fax:
(07) 3237 0577

Document information

 Approval record: 11/158221 Doc. Ref. 11/145828
Date of implementation: 2001-01-07
Date of publication: 2009-09-17
Date to be reviewed: 2013-06-21
This procedure replaces:
Uncontrolled copy. Please refer to Education Policy and Procedure Register at http://iwww.qed.qld.gov.au/strategic/eppr/ for latest version.
Uncontrolled copy. Please refer to Education Policy and Procedure Register at http://education.qld.gov.au/strategic/eppr/ for latest version.

^ Top of page

Copyright | Disclaimer | Privacy | Access keys | Other languagesOther languages

© The State of Queensland (Department of Education and Training) 2006.

Queensland Government