The survey conducted by Hannibal-LaGrange College in May 2006 included a total of 1019 responses from 12 public schools, representing urban, suburban, small town, and rural environments in the state of Missouri. The survey was conducted to compare the amount of drug-free students who had received FreeWay classroom instruction and signed a non-use pledge car d with the amount of drug-free students who did not receive FreeWay classroom instruction, therefore not signing a non-use pledge card.
Students grades 4-8 were asked to identify themselves only by their gender and grade level. The survey included 725 students in eight schools who received FreeWay instruction and signed non-use pledge cards and 294 students in four "control" schools who did not receive FreeWay instruction or sign non-use pledge cards.
In 8 FreeWay schools (725 pledging students)
|676 of 725 pledging students reported being drug free for one year
|49 of 725 pledging students reported drug use the preceding year
In 4 Control schools (294 non pledging students)
|261 of 294 non pledging students reported being drug free for one year
|33 or 294 non pledging students reported drug use the preceding year
FreeWay reduced drug users by 39.3%
"These results showed that the FreeWay Foundation
provided information to students that did significantly and positively
impact them to enable them to make more drug free choices. Clearly,
without exposure to the FreeWay Foundation Curriculum, there might
be two times more students making negative choices and thereby
using harmful drugs. Those students who did participate in the
FreeWay Foundation Curriculum were five times more likely to resist
harmful drug choices.
The positive societal impact of the FreeWay
Foundation Curriculum is therefore irrefutable, based upon these
self reported data from the students themselves. Further, the
older the students become, the more critical than they receive
the FreeWay Foundation Curriculum" Dr. Al Sarno, LPC, Instructor
of Human Services, Hannibal-LaGrange College, Hannibal, Missouri.
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