Malignant Neglect: Substance Abuse and America's Schools

This report is the result of six years of analysis, surveys, and field investigations, including one hundred focus groups with students, teachers, parents and school administrators in public, private and parochial schools across the country, and the most exhaustive study ever undertaken of the available data on substance use in our schools and among our students.

The report found that substance abuse and addiction will add at least $41 billion -- 10 percent -- to the costs of elementary and secondary education this year, due to class disruption and violence, special education and tutoring, teacher turnover, truancy, children left behind, student assistance programs, property damage, injury and counseling.

(126 pp.)

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Publication Year: 2001

Publisher

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA)
Columbia University
633 Third Avenue, 19th Floor
New York, ny 10017
Phone: 212-841-5200
Website: http://www.casacolumbia.org/