Youth, Families & Violence

Teens
Sterling, E. E. (2003, September 9). Teens and Drug Policy.
In this editorial, CJPF President Eric E. Sterling critiques the advertising campaigns launched by the Office of National Drug Control Policy one of which claims that marijuana use funds terrorism. Read about how these exaggerated claims do more harm than good.

Safety First: A Reality-Based Approach to Teens and Drugs. This website provides parents of adolescents honest information about drugs. The site includes information about specific drugs, student drug testing, and drug treatment.

Schools
Martins, E. F. (2004, May 23). Secondary School Student Drug Testing: Protection or Invasion?.
This legal research by former CJPF Research Associate Elissa Faye Martins discusses the legal history of suspiciousness student drug testing and how they violate students' Fourth Amendment rights.

Women
CJPF recommends the following books on women and drugs:

Besharov, Douglas J. ed. When Drug Addicts Have Children: Reorienting Child Welfare's Response. Washington, D.C.: Child Welfare League of America, 1994.

Boyd, S. C. Mothers and Illicit Drugs: Transcending the Myths. Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

Kandall, Stephen R. Substance and Shadow: Women and Addiction in the United States. Massachusettes: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Nellis, Muriel. The Female Fix. Massachusettes: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980.

Sommers, Ira; Baskin, Deborah; & Fagan, Jeffery. Workin' Hard for the Money: The Social and Economic Lives of Women Drug Sellers. New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc., 2000.