Show PT PTAs PTA's As A's AsS vs S Drug Abuse All over the country Parent Parent Parent Par Par- ent Teacher Associations have taken up the challenge of drug abuse and are doing something about it Their work is part of a newly invigorated national attack attack at at- at- at tack upon narcotic and dangerous dangerous dan dan- drug abuse The Thc President President President dent and his Administration are concentrating much effort upon this massive problem As a part of its role in the nationwide endeavor the National National Na Institute of Mental Health seeks to make widely available to everyone the known facts about drug abuse the current current current cur cur- rent state of drug research and the best thinking about ways of the serious dangers dangers dan dan- gers of drug abuse among youth One important way of disseminating disseminating dis dis- this ibis information is through h the cooperation of the Nations Nation's PTAs since the PTAs arc deeply concerned about the misuse misuse of drugs and arc convinced convinced con con- vinced that education is one of the best preventive measures For some time the PT PTA A has been engaged in a nationwide project on childrens children's emotional health in which aids Education about drug abuse has become a natural component of such a project To assist the prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared a skit kit of drug abuse in in- in formation at the recommendation tion of the National PTA through its special committee on education about alcohol and drug abuse The kit contains five leaflets a reprint of an article from The PTA Magazine and a series of public service advertisements adver adver- Copies of the kit were widely distributed to PTA Presidents for use in their own programs From all aU indications the response re re- re response of PT PTAs As everywhere has been wholeheartedly encouraging encouraging encouraging aging and in local communities ties throughout the US U.S. parent parent- teacher groups arc building a abroad abroad abroad broad program of education that will result in wider knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge of drugs their abuse and how to prevent such abuse Many many agencies and or- or i of course form the vast partnership of effort that the large and growing growing grow grow- ing attack on the drug problem t Your own PTA or other groups to which you belong may well already be numbered in the ranks of resources in this attack If not however and you would like Jike copies of the PT PTA A kit or other information on drug abuse and prevention they are arc available without charge from the National Institute Institute In of Mental Health Box Boz 1080 Washington DC D.C. |