HASH TREATMENT MOVES INTO SCHOOLS

Problem Of Ineffective Treatment Programmes Solved By Moving
Counseling Into Schools

Cannabis abusers are finding it increasingly difficult to get help,
say addiction specialists throughout the country. However, a
successful pilot project has shown significant results by moving
treatment programmes into the schools.

The pilot project involved 18 cannabis smokers at four vocational
schools in Copenhagen, 15 of which used the drug several times a day.

Today the project is completed and only one of the students still
smokes several times a day. Eight have dropped it completely, while
the rest are down to a low or moderate consumption.

"Cannabis is the biggest abuse problem among young Danes and a major
cause of the high drop-out-rates at the country's youth education
programmes," Unna Madsen of the City Council's addiction centre,
U-turn, told Politiken newspaper.