Drug Education! | British VS American | Evan Edinger & Lucy Moon

[@Jamie_Smith.]

Drug education in the UK. Climbing in the back of a truck parked in the school car park, and having a giraffe tell you drugs are bad!

[@eilidhyoungson6796]

GERALDDDDDD

[@chuumyfavorite4890]

Gerald the giraffe was a FUCKING ICON!!!!!

[@aoife5673]

Literally

[@elizabethnahu3422]

We have Gerald in New Zealand too such a good time

[@emmairwin581]

So that wasn’t a dream?

[@Mashmarriner69]

Drug education in the UK from my experience. Was none of this "don't do drugs" shite. Educated us about what drugs are an do. It was more important to understand drugs and if you do, do it. Do it safely!! I still believe that's the most important thing.

[@melmel1071]

Yup. We had this too. Like if you’re gunna drink, do it in a safe place like at home or with people you trust. And with weed they just told us to be careful cause it can lead to drugs that are highly dangerous (heroin, cocaine etc)

[@AJ-xv6bj]

Yeah literally making is understand and informing children instead of insisting fear works so much more efficiently

[@shortbu5driver]

so what would they say about coke, meth and heroin then?

[@Mashmarriner69]

@@shortbu5driver same thing. You can still take Cocaine, Meth and Heroin safely.

[@jjy2216]

We got told 'we can't stop you so here's information so you can make an informed decision'

[@hellanistpunk3282]

We had drug education in school but the teachers knew so many of us did drugs they taught us what to do if we overdosed

[@kamishy_Art]

Now, that's education

[@anna.b2401]

Oh we had a short film to teach us how to do the recovery position and the whole scenario was about someone getting drunk at a party and then there were 2 scenarios. 1 they didn't do it and she ended up choking to death on her own vomit and then 2 she lived cuz they did the recovery position. Although it was kinda weird cuz when she died everyone was like oh she was a great person it's so sad and when she lived everyone was like what a lightweight.

[@Chamelionroses]

Must be better than the bible belt where drugs are overdised secretly, and people remain ignorant often.

[@Dt-rd4bb]

Litually same but the teachers were really focused probably practicing for there weekend

[@JavaErrors]

Annabanana 2401 I think I saw that video too

[@RaunienTheFirst]

Acid heads according to drug education programs: I did an acid and thought I could fly and then I died! Acid heads IRL: this ceiling is *so interesting*

[@aaronjackson1875]

RaunienTheFirst popcorn ceiling all the way.

[@MarkLaiGaming]

Popcorn ceiling ftw

[@leftblank1283]

Smack heads: Why is the heroin baby on the ceiling now?

[@AJ-xv6bj]

Or my favourite quote I've ever heard. *sees dark stairs* "oh fuck bro this is some Alice and wonderland bullshit. All I want to do is pee"

[@EthanolTailor]

@@AJ-xv6bj my favourite, "all us humans do is, eat, crap, breath, piss, drink, and acid"

[@sarah-tl1fq]

d i won’t do drugs a won’t have an attitude r i will respect myself e i will educate me BEATBOXING INTENSIFIES

[@kcorona7715]

Sarah D IM NOT GONNA DO DRUGS

[@evan]

CHECK YOUR ATTITUDE AT THE DOOR

[@eimearkeaveney1192]

I WILL DARE

[@louiem.m6116]

IM NOT GONNA DO DRUGS I WONT GIVE IN I WONT GIVE UP I WILL GIVE A FIGHT AND.. I DONT REMEMBER THE REST OF THE WORDS

[@MostlyPennyCat]

See I put this to "Doe, a deer, a female dear"

[@nonegiven2830]

That's exactly how things went with US in the 80s. "if you smoke weed, you'll die", so when people tried it and didn't die, the thought process was "they lied about weed so what else did they lie about"

[@dashiefiles]

hahaha.

[@srirachael]

Tea and consent people, kinda not related but taught at the same time as drugs, fire safety, water safety, sex safety and abuse.

[@ks7485]

Rachael Wilcox I remember the tea metaphor omg

[@Charlotte-vj2pg]

Unconscious people don’t want tea

[@srirachael]

@@Charlotte-vj2pg and this is the important part don't make them drink the tea

[@hanzib31]

I. DON'T. WANT. A. CUP. OF. TEA. 😂😂😂 It was a really bad metaphor though, as when do we British not want a cup of tea. Also, did anyone else get "stand by your pan" in the beginning of uni for fire safety 😂

[@amberlogue7684]

Ahaha haha omg we literally watched that video the other day

[@roseberelowitz]

Not gunna lie, a private all-girls school student isn’t gunna give a an accurate representation of drug education and drug abuse in the UK

[@kelman727]

Jules Making it just as true...

[@premablanchette663]

Inaccurate*

[@roseberelowitz]

Pxb4 ! Sorry grammar police

[@cassie5357]

I go to one and my brother has the same education as me for drugs

[@littleadam5740]

Innit, like I’m from Lincolnshire and ours was wayyyy worse and way too late by then

[@juliaemily8638]

Drug education: “Don’t do it.”

[@dolleyes9232]

just like american sex education! lol

[@Deviant365]

Just say no. Look it up.

[@nonegiven2830]

"Don't do drugs.... except alcohol... and tobacco...basically don't do drugs we don't tax"

[@Sophie-ov6bh]

(uk) we had these people come in and told us “don’t touch, tell” which meant that if we were offered drugs, don’t touch them, tell an adult or police. the dude who told us this turned out to be a crackhead and went to jail for drugs

[@daviddawes7316]

Tbf "dont touch, tell" could also be used for 80's television presenters and catholic priests

[@imaginekudryavka9485]

I think he just wanted you to not touch that crack and instead tell him so he can smoke it.

[@cez_is_typing]

Unrelated but guys who do school stuff are always creepy. We had a magician dude that used to do birthday parties in our area and came into our school and stuff, he later got outed as a pedophile and had child porn and pictures of kids at his birthday parties

[@laureningram3506]

I'm pretty sure I wrote my DARE essay on the faultiness of its system. What an edgy child I was.

[@bloodmoonsims]

Liz Ingram - Idk why I love this

[@kayrobinin]

I don’t remember what I wrote for my essay but I definitely hated it😂

[@ellbeveridge7256]

Our alcohol and drug program was called “SPICE” safe to say that was swiftly changed.

[@tpench0754]

Lmao i can see y

[@BeerHuntor]

it caught on

What did it stand for?

[@helenchelmicka]

😅😅

[@annaalmasan5368]

As someone who is currently attending secondary school in the UK I can confidently say that we don't get any drug education. Edit : so what I have learnt from this comment section is that drug education varies depending on where you go to school. I go to an all girls school in the north west so we have get little to no drug education were as someone from an area with more drug crime would get more drug education. That being said people in my school still do drugs/smoke/vape and/or drink without parental consent

[@elio6037]

so frank isn't a thing anymore?

[@user-xd4sk4pk7h]

ilona taylor-conway nope, we have pretty much nothing

[@elliea5326]

Anna Almasan really I just finished year 11 and I got it in pshe

[@oakleypullen8996]

Anna Almasan yeah I agree but I’m only in year 8 so I might have not had it yet idk 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@footballcrazy700]

I am at a secondary school in the UK but I literally have at sooooo many assembly's about drugs and knife crime. We even had searches done by the police at one point.

[@maddie-hx8ek]

the senior year of highschool my friend wrote a paper about why people shouldn't smoke weed for a D.A.R.E contest. she then proceeded to use the prize money to buy weed... a legend

[@Ske1et0n45]

that is the best thing ive ever heard lmao

[@Bumi-90]

In Germany, at least the part I'm from, the drug education is more focused on keeping us away from "stronger" drugs. We learned about the risks and consequences of all drugs, and if you were doing drugs or if you even were addicted you were provided help by the government or your school. You could tell them Wich drugs you use, and they would not tell you that it's bad, but they would try to find the cause, why you felt the need to do drugs and help you to find other less dangerous ways to fight your problems. In some cases, for example if you would be addicted to heroin there would even be the possibility to get clean heroin under supervision of an doctor, who will slowly decrease the dosis, to get you of the drug slowly and safely. This then would be paid for by the State or it will be founded by companies. It is based on the idea, that everyone can seek help without having to worry about the consequences, if private or social problems got you to the point where you didn't see any other way.

That's great

[@hikariyumi9441]

I’m from Germany too and I don’t actually remember our anti drug program? I think we did a project about them in class.. made posters to hang up and do presentations? But I did an internship at a place that helped people get clean at a clinic, or safely access materials for drug use (like syringes) for virtually no money. Or as op described, programs to put you on methadone. I rather like that approach. The reason I don’t do drive today is cause mum would kill me and yeah no, that’s too much of a hassle :)

[@heatherlindfield2978]

Drug education in the UK was just watching skins

[@Velocitist]

Heather Lindfield Bit of a mood

[@ajandrianjafymusic]

👏🏽👏🏽

[@watsername]

I live where skins was filmed, so I just kinda lived it XD

[@Peacelilly112]

MaidAlice - Sid’s actor was a teacher in my school for a while 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@evita.v]

@@Peacelilly112 lmao really?

[@Firenzell01]

We had an addict come into our secondary school and focused more on how hard it is to beat addiction and all of our stuff on drugs told us very calmly about the side effects and instead of "NEVER TAKE DRUGS" it was more like "here are the side effects (told realistically) and if you are still going to take them, then here is how to be safe taking drugs"

[@melmel1071]

Emily Burden was their name Paul by any chance? Heroin addict. Cause we had him come in. And he just showed us what the constant needle injections did to him.

[@sarahl3721]

Surely the message is the same though...if you tell anyone calmly the side effects of heroin surely the only message is never take heroin

[@imaansaeed58]

I’m from the UK and I remember in primary school we had the life bus with the giraffe and that taught us about drugs and alcohol and then in secondary school a policeman came in and taught us about what some drugs do to you. He said like if you’re gonna do it at least be safe and know the consequences. We also had PSHE lessons every week about life including sex, alcohol and drugs education

[@evelyn-bz7hv]

Same

[@evelyn-bz7hv]

Basically

[@cattjohnson1114]

THE FUCKING GIRAFFE!!! Oh my god I thought I was on hallucinogenic or something cause I seemed to be the only one of my mates that new about it!!! I think he did something on sexual abuse as well

[@alyciataft3809]

Yeah I remember that.

[@vwertix1662]

i went to a catholic primary school so i had fuck all

[@hollycutts8322]

hey, can you do a British vs American about school councils and prefect teams?

[@evan]

uh prefect teams?

[@eimearkeaveney1192]

Yess

[@derpimusmaximus8815]

@@evan Future snitches and investment bankers. And by that second one, I mean both the rhyming slang and the actual career. Prefects are fucking shitbags.

[@ruebrownies]

Evan Edinger Most of us don't have prefect teams just prefects

[@katrina6469]

@@derpimusmaximus8815 who hurt you

[@jameslloyd2957]

I'm in UK in year 11 and it's not like that. Evan should react to the tea consent it's jokes!

[@elliotisnotonline]

oh my god I know what you're talking about

[@cait812]

Still pissed an American police service dubbed it and passed it off as their own, like the accent wasn't that hard to understand.

[@bobfrediii2131]

Lmao

[@jaydenhunter648]

Remember kids, unconscious people don't want tea

[@charles4283]

Consent: it’s easy as tea

[@Jess-ki9uo]

At my school (UK) kids literally sit on school grounds n smoke cigarettes and weed and some even sell weed at school

[@bradcantrill6773]

Jess mines not as bad but its still like that minus drugs sales

[@belovedhao]

Mine is/was the exact same as that and once a teacher noticed a deal going on and didn't even stop it, just walked straight past while looking straight at them. What a crappy school I went to for secondary.

[@Jess-ki9uo]

Blu_JellyBean literally same, school nowadays are a joke

[@rxss6154]

Pretty much the same here when i was at school. When teachers used to walk past the kids smoking, the kids used to chip it out and put it under their shoe Will always remember “£1 for a cig and 50p for a roll up” or, the kids who used to sell sweets and drinks would trade what they had for fags. The ONLY thing teachers would say is “let me smell your tie coz you stink of smoke” and we had an assembly where the head was like “its come to our attention kids are selling cigarettes, this is illegal and if caught could be prosecuted for selling tobacco to minors and selling without a license”. NOTHING ABOUT SMOKING just about selling them is illegal Our deputy head even brought E-cigs/vapes etc for kids who she found out was smoking so they could vape instead of smoke

[@SykesBFC]

Same

[@karinahilton2330]

I'm British and I remember we had that 'talk to frank' thing when I was I'm secondary school (I'm 25)

[@srirachael]

I was taught all medicines are drugs but not all drugs are medicines.(SW England: Gerald the giraffe)

[@DT-ub6ud]

His name was Harold

[@Connor-hl4fc]

In my school Gerald taught us about the human body, not drugs

[@srirachael]

@@Connor-hl4fc He taught both at my school.

[@DT-ub6ud]

Connor Hare HAROLD!!

[@boo4108]

I was thought that in my school to! (US)

[@randomyoutubechannel2470]

In Merseyside: Years 1-5: Don't do drugs. Year 6: Not all drugs are bad.

[@GameGod77]

Primary school: Drugs are bad and they kill you. Secondary school: Pass the baccy there laaa!

[@hotmess6639]

THEGAMEGOD7777 the accuracy of this makes me weep

[@emmynoether9540]

I find it strange that alcohol is not included under the drugs umbrella.

[@evan]

it should be

[@Bhocobhipbookie]

Emmy Noether It was for me. It seems like all my school ever talks about but it doesn’t matter because the kids don’t listen anyway.

[@liv1639]

Drugs and alcohol = Fruit and bananas

[@anna.b2401]

We did do that but then again we also learnt about drugs on the same page day as stds

[@bethisnotokay3746]

I think it's because alcohol is legal

[@elijahredden2879]

the drug education (uk) we got was "skills for life" which was sex ed mixed with philosophy mixed with drug education and they kinda just showed us people ODing and Amy Winehouse

[@caramarie2000]

whilst doing GCSE exams that's when weed was so popular within my school cause they were so stressful.

[@francesatty7022]

same here lol

[@auntchilada8635]

Yeah same

[@willbwhipping3072]

Completely agree I did a ton of weed at school whilst doing GCSE’s

[@vanalibra]

I'm from Germany and I definitely can't speak for every German school, BUT when we were like 13 or 14 or something we were visited by a social worker who once was addicted to drugs in the past. He had a meth addiction and he basically told us how it began, how he was introduced to it, what he had tried and also how different types of drugs work, what you're likely to experience etc. And it was SO informative, because honestly the best you can do is not tell kids not to do drugs, but rather tell them what to expect/how to take them responsibly. Because let's be honest, they will try it anyway, regardless of what you as an adult tell them, so you can at least explain to them that if they are not familiar with something and want to try it, they should a) take it from someone they know and trust, b) take it in a familiar environment where they feel safe and c) have a person who is familiar with the drug and its effects stay sober and watch you until the effects wear off, so that if anything goes wrong, they can take care of you, calm you down and if necessary take you to the hospital. THAT is drug education! Telling kids not to do drugs and telling horror stories will do nothing.

[@alexasunshine83]

in 5th grade they had cheerleaders and football players from the local high school come down to do a skit about not doing drugs, yet as time went on I learned when I got into high school that the cheerleaders were usually the worse ones 😅

[@Rhinneh]

My friend and I were walking along the street near my house one night when a shiny black 4x4 pulled up and the window rolled down. A guy leaned out and said 'Want some weed, darlin?' to my friend. She's quite shy and replied 'Oh... no thank you.' And he gave us a thumbs up and said 'Nice one!' then drove away. What a polite chap.

[@kamishy_Art]

In Latin America, the drug dealer teach us about drugs and the dangers so he won't lose clients, beat that I dare you

[@izzi7576]

That’s, different. Can’t beat it but we had a bartender lol

[@MidnightAssass1n]

My dad was a Pothead so my drug education was him telling me about how hemp was banned because of racism and the paper industry

[@catherinehodge5125]

Oh my god talk to frank wtf I’d forgotten all about that

[@ross_burnage]

The FRANK website is still pretty much the place to go for rational, evidence based drugs info that doesn't try to hard to be hip OR try to scare

[@BlazeTheYouTuber]

@@ross_burnage and they dont bias it they tell you the exact feelings you will have on a drug no beating around the bush

[@dolmio247]

We had talk to frank, and if you grew up between 2000-2010 you probably was given a leaflet written in some sort of graffiti font telling you how drugs are bad.

[@IshtarNike]

Bingo! What's all this crap about a giraffe?

[@Meg_intheclouds]

@@IshtarNike I think it was a 2010-2015 thing. I was at primary school from 2009-2016 and I did it every year. Basically this van came in to the play ground and you went in with a teacher and there was this women and a giraffe that taught you about drugs, alcohol, healthy eating and sex education.

[@ellie-pm9hp]

my school never mentioned drugs, it was like it was the scariest thing in the world that they COULDNT EVEN SAY IT

[@elibeth3521]

Where is that school?

[@ellie-pm9hp]

eli beth why would i tell you what school i go to? bit creepy

[@houleyeshouse6637]

ellie I think she ment America or UK

[@elibeth3521]

@@houleyeshouse6637 Exactly

[@elibeth3521]

@@ellie-pm9hp I'm not interested in what exact school u go to. I was just curious in what country was that 💁👀

[@JackRabbit668]

I love how alcohol destroys your liver, makes you violent and just destroys your life, but weed makes you sit on your sofa and watch Shrek

[@sabirin5816]

🤣🤣

[@theduksystemqwakers7946]

I'm from the UK I don't remember any type of Drug Education in Primary or Senior School We had one assembly where some guy (I guess a Police officer or something) he brought a brief case with bags of drugs i think it was about half an hour long that's it I'm shocked that there is actually drugs education schemes

[@iamiamiam7367]

Yeah, same here in Malaysia.The officers came to school and just give some talk on drugs(usually a small exhibition).Then they would give us notes/brochures about it. That's it. Edit:They also bring some drug and devices related to drug.

[@TyrannosavageRekt]

How old are you? I'm 27 and we had extensive education about drugs and their dangers.

[@theduksystemqwakers7946]

@@TyrannosavageRekt we are 33yrs old

[@TyrannosavageRekt]

@@theduksystemqwakers7946 Maybe it's something that stated in between then. Or maybe there are just regional differences.

[@theduksystemqwakers7946]

@@TyrannosavageRekt i imagine there are huge regional differences

[@alexprice594]

I mean here in Australia we went into a van and learnt from a giraffe called Harold 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@MangoMonster2007]

You mean Gerald

[@no-bn7xv]

In UK too. He’s scary

[@ANNA-fg3rz]

well that’s creepy

[@MangoMonster2007]

Lily Hyde what are you saying, to he was great. When in year 6 and he didn’t come out we begged to see him.

[@leeoconnell2572]

In ireland too but I forget his name but our teachers took us into a van in a car park and we danced to who let the dogs out after learning about drugs

[@spaceonion4126]

God I remember the M-Cat phase. Talk to Frank were great because they did give suggestions on how to do drugs safely etc

[@Vixterlk]

Grew up in the UK and our primary school anti-drugs assembalies were very factual and focused a lot on the symptoms of each drilug and how it could affect your wellbeing physically and mentally. Our secondary school anti-drugs assemblies were more detailed. It basically recapped the symptoms of the most commonly used drugs in the area, then we watched videos detailing the accounts of former addicts and family members/friends of people who had died due to their drug habbits. After that they also gave us a presentation about how to make sure that you and the people around you stay safe in an environment where drugs are being used. Including hazards to look out for, how to keep someone who had passed out safe and how to deal with the situation if you suspect someone has overdosed and symptoms of overdosage to look out for. It was quite detailed.

[@oliviashawyer9135]

I remember they hid drugs and did drug search with his dog in my primary school hall (year 5 and 6 only)

[@briannalarsen04]

Olivia Shawyer I was in like 3rd grade when they did that

[@marisolalfonso7826]

“Stop crying unless I give you something to cry about” WOAH ptsd flashbackssss

[@immie1007]

I’m from the East of England and I have never had any drug education other than making a jar full of treacle to represent smoker lungs lol

[@lazerapes]

Good to know that the jar of treacle exists somewhere else than Sweden as well. I think we got that lecture twice within the same year by a police officer.

[@mermailikoalicornishere6439]

@@lazerapes in England or where I am we don't even get a lecture they just plop it on the desk expecting us to know what it represents 😂

[@lazerapes]

@@mermailikoalicornishere6439 We had a no smoking raffle though. At the beginning of middle school ( age 10-12ish) everyone would put about 10£ into the raffle winnings and every year they would draw 2 from each grade that got 50£ each back. At the end of middle school everyone that hadn't smoked got their 10£ back. In reality a lot of people that regularly smoked were entered in the no smoking raffle. I won once though, so i'm not gonna complain.

[@phoebesayer6747]

Whereabouts are you in England? I’m in Norfolk

[@immie1007]

Phoebe Sayer Suffolk

[@SarahBecks713]

I remember my DARE experience being more anti tobacco and alcohol than other drugs. I think they touched on hard drugs. But the thing that sticks out the most in my head is when they brought in a set of smoker's lungs (yes, real lungs...) into our classroom and showed how black and shriveled they were, and they even had them hooked up to a machine that simulated breathing so you could see how poorly they worked. It scarred me for life. I also remember in high school, they had a guy come into our health class and talk about drugs, and this time he talked about like weed and heroin and meth and stuff. And I remember he had a joint in his hand, and he came up to me (literally the most innocent person in the class) and said, "you know what this is don't you?" and I literally had no idea, so of course I told him that, and he was just like, "oh, come on! you know!" Luckily one of my classmates chimed in and said it was weed, but I could tell everyone else was kind of laughing because the dude totally picked the wrong person to ask whether I knew about drugs.

[@annarose2990]

In America right now we have SABRE (at least where I live), which stands for Substance ABuse Reduction Effort. It covers all the stuff that DARE did, but it also covers peer pressure, cyberbullying, alcohol abuse, and some other stuff. At my school, we also have a local program that covers the same stuff as SABRE and DARE but talks more about goal making, mental disorders, and how to handle stress.

[@larawebster8991]

We had an ex-addict come in to talk to us (when I was in year 7). The teachers told us that it wouldn’t be too bad, aha haha... He swore at us (with year 6’s in the room) brandished a massive knife. Then showed us all the pictures of the needles and he pulled up a picture of his leg, which was the most revolting thing (maggots, infection, bleeding etc). Finally showed us his leg in the present day (mangled,scarred, a couple infection wounds). You were allowed to leave the hall at any point, so around half of the hall stepped out at one point. However a couple kids didn’t make it in time, two kids fainted, one kid peed himself and one kid threw up...

[@BELLA-mf6hb]

Sounds great.

[@ERIF2003]

We had the same thing

[@variant6478]

was it paul hannaford because i remember this happened to my school

[@andyhartley]

I'm pretty sure most of my education on drugs came from watching EastEnders in the mid 90s - having said that, I've never taken any illegal drugs in my entire life, so maybe that's the answer!

[@georgiebrocklehurst6397]

I’m from the UK and we had the DARE program around the same age 10-11. And we had this guy come into our classroom and give a long presentation about all the different drugs and the effects of them. Then about a week later I remember performing a song we learnt as well. “Stop before you start. You must always say, no to drugs then you must just quickly walk away.” This was in an assembly and our parents we told to come in and watch what we had learnt.

[@emilynielsen6617]

The more I learn about Evan's schooling experiences the more I realize the differences between the each state. If you grabbed a student from every state there would be 50 different ways schools worked

[@em_jav2417]

When I was in middle school, we had this one day where each grade went to the auditorium and parents would come and tell us stories of how their children passed away to drugs. What scared me the most were that they were kids my age, and sometimes even younger. I always cried after every time we had that. It was really sad listening to the parents talking about their kids who overdosed

[@TheCelineVictoria]

I am from Norway and I don't think I have ever had any form of drug education in school.

[@teresabakalarska6001]

I never had one either. I live in Poland.

[@lazerapes]

Same here from Sweden. Only don't drink and drive and don't smoke cigarettes.

[@np1056]

It's better NOT to have one. Or at least not the DARE program. It created a drug problem (accidentally).

[@megangreasby2444]

I’m british and I didn’t have any drug eduction

[@ChaosPod]

From Australia and I don't remember any drug education either.

[@morgankilford-wills9811]

"when ever some one stops me on the street and offers me a weed" "a weed"

[@brettcarruthers8838]

So you had a similar experience in school basically to John Mulaney's bit about Detective Bittenbinder.

[@evan]

I mean yes

[@SarahBecks713]

STREET SMARTS!

[@cahinton.]

Why does Evan always talk about how there aren't any train tracks in the US? Um, what? They're literally everywhere.

[@jessicaferry3491]

Not so much on the coasts, midwest yeah

[@sean_mccadden]

@@jessicaferry3491 Idk they’re still pretty everywhere on the west coast. Course that’s because of logging and the gold rush so might be different east coast

[@StephB29]

I’m from England and we did the DARE programme when I was like 9-10 like 17 years ago... How has no one else done that?!?

[@avaterhorst772]

In Canada, we had a police officer come in to class multiple times in grade 6 to educate us on drug abuse, misuse, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, addiction, overdose, and withdrawal. There were some graphic images but not too many. The officer acted more as our friend than an adult telling us what to do. After grade 6 and all throughout high school we had madd presentations that are people sharing tragic experiences they have had due to driving under the influence. Even after all of this, I couldn’t believe when Evan said he knew one stoner in high school. We don’t have “stoners” because EVERYONE does it. It is tremendously easy to get any drugs or alcohol because it’s everywhere.

[@Lauren-nd4xl]

All the people in the uk who get training for drug education must get the same stupid stories spewed to them to repeat to kids because I was told all the same stories when I was a kid but weirdly enough the spiders one was marijuana instead of acid. When I was 18 my school gave us an actually useful talk for once when someone with actual medical training basically said to us “look me telling you loads of horror stories isn’t going to do anything so if you ever find yourself in the situation make sure you do this, don’t mix these etc” and instead of trying to scare us just made sure that everyone knows how keep themselves safe if they chose

[@tarkett8529]

Not all the stories are that stupid, a friend was out of his skull on acid and we watched him curl up in a corner because “Jesus was attacking him with the cross” then stood bolt upright and legged it because a bag of minstrels was chasing him, he’s a teacher now.

[@corvidofchaos]

I live in the UK and in my year at school there were four girls (around age 14) who took ecstacy pills in the girls bathroom after school one day. Three of the girls took half a pill and the other girl took a whole pill (they had bought 3 pills). They got caught because they left half of the 3rd pill next to the sink and someone reported it to SST (the Student Support Team). We also had a group of boys smoking weed and one got a bong delivered to his house (his parents are both police officers). I also regularly see kids doing and vaping starting at like 12 (I walked past a group of 12 year olds from my school when I was walking home and the three of them were sharing a vape).

[@izzaayyy530]

I’m from the UK and actually don’t think we ever had any drug awareness things 🤷‍♀️

[@johnlondonbimeetup7961]

As a 40-something yr old, we didn't get any drug education til secondary school. We had someone (police?) come in and we had lessons on it, as Lucy says was more about information and telling you what can happen, a bit of fear-inducing too. After I left school, a soap (Grange Hill) about kids at an inner city school followed one of the kids through drug abuse - heroin (and/or others, I forget), which was talked about a lot and [spoiler] he died from abuse, I think that had a big impact that a drama aimed at young kids was talking about something like that quite adultly and so seriously. We had "Just say No" a song in the charts from the kids there too.

[@whydontyoucomehome]

say it with me now, Contracts Signed By A Minor Are Not Legally Binding, Contracts Signed By A Minor Are Not Legally Binding, Contracts Signed By A Minor Are Not Legally Binding, Contracts Signed By A Minor Are Not Legally Binding, Contracts Signed By A Minor Are Not Legally Binding, Contracts Signed By A Minor Are Not Legally Binding, Contracts Signed By A Minor Are Not Legally Binding,

[@Warsnop]

Pretty sure they know that and it's just a symbolic thing.

[@whydontyoucomehome]

@@Warsnop yeah but nothing is stopping the kids from doing whatever they want except the belief that they are forced by law to obey, they aren't so why bother?

[@nicolew3252]

Ben Biggs drugs are illegal are u ok

[@whydontyoucomehome]

@@nicolew3252 physically? yes, mentally? no, no i am not, but other than that yes thank you. ps i am not on drugs just, y'know sad

[@mariacurtis9247]

All kids in the UK sign contracts that they have to read with their parents agreeing to the rules and good behaviour policies of their school. Parents also have to sign to ensure the kids follow the rules.

[@ivetterodriguez1994]

I'm from the US. I was taught about drugs the summer before my first year of high school (age 14). All I remember regarding the drug section is that some of them lower your heart rate and others increase it while you are on the drug, not to mix drugs with other drugs, not mix drugs with alcohol, and that methamphetamine is really hard to pronounce no matter how many times you try to say it. Oh and that all medicine is drugs but not all drugs are used as medicines. ei. hallucinogens I had health ed which consisted of drug education, wellbeing, education on mental/emotional/physical health and abuse, puberty, sex ed, and the stages of pregnancy. And I'm probably forgetting a few things. The class was Monday through Thursday for two weeks (8 days), 5 hours each day.

[@isbaeli]

Everytime I watch British vs American, in my head I'm always comparing your expieriences with mine growing up in Germany. It would be so interesting to talk about this with you guys! :D

[@manub.3847]

Do the teenagers at school still read "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo/We Children from Zoo Station" or watch the movie?

[@isbaeli]

Manu B. I don‘t think so, well at least at my school we didn’t! :’D

[@o0Avalon0o]

I learned the song for school, but didn't know about the contract thing until I found my siblings no-drug contract (during spring cleaning). They did suffer from drug abuse for years, but recovered after a regretful argument with our grandmother, soon before her death, made him reevaluate his effect on others, even though he did not cause her death.

[@hazelforest1543]

Our drugs program told us in y7 (UK). "Weed is one of the safer ones, There's no real evidence it poses much harm, however its still illegal and being arrested is pia and you can get fined, and sometimes due to the fact its unregulated it can be laced with worse shit Now let's talk about the worse shit" (Minor paraphrasing) Also there where the police trucks where they basically tried to drag you in to tell you about drugs, they also gave out free food(with a blue bin next to it) and had an Xbox and stuff, and every night after doing work on a Friday they tried to talk to me(they gave up after like 4 weeks)... It was sooo annoying

[@SquishyPixelz]

I live in Northern Ireland. The extent of my “don’t do drugs” talks were being warned about drugged Halloween sweets

[@matthewloughran73]

Also from Northern Ireland, I'm sure I have had it, but I connot remember any formal drug education beyond, don't leave a drink and come back to it because it might be spiked.

[@tibbyboyd9836]

Wasn't part of the biology GCSE's on drugs. We had to learn the arguments for and against legalising weed, about how it was a gateway drug and stuff like that.

[@TyrannosavageRekt]

If that's true, then it's a ludicrous thing to be teaching. There's very little biological science data that will support the idea of cannabis as a "gateway drug". The gateway is largely a social problem.

[@tibbyboyd9836]

@@TyrannosavageRekt it was about to extent could it be considered a gateway drug taking into account multiple variables. It was only like a page or two in the textbook.

[@twistiebabes]

That's only on the separate gcses the join science gcse it's not really broached

[@sheccabaw]

13:16 "I do not want to score." Ah, yes, the asexual anthem.

[@teamonster8698]

I'm 20 from the UK and never had any drug related education.

[@darigaabikenova8724]

I'm from Kazakhstan and my mid school years were full of those lectures. But the most vivid experience was when I went to library and there were new huge books all about what drugs, smoking, alcohol and radiation do to people, all in separate books. Books were extremely graphic, it was disgusting. me and my classmates discussed it for far too long. It was in a village. There's no way for them to welcome guests from towns, so our teachers just read lectures themselves. When I moved to the town I'm in now, I was 12-13 (7th grade), people from colleges came to us to read lectures, to give brochures or anonymous tests.

[@lauraxx8014]

in Ireland my drug education was taught in RELIGION but it was actually decent and taught us the negatives obviously but also taught us if you were going to do them how to do it safely

[@alexdelikan9849]

I’m English and the drug education I had was they taught us the classes in which different drugs were in and just told us not to do it

[@thesleepingbeauty12]

that No Drugs contact isn't valid Evan. you were a minor when you signed it.

[@TyrannosavageRekt]

In Wales, we used to have PSE lessons from around the age of 7 onwards. Though not super regularly, and it didn't become a frequent lesson until we got into our teens, and it was either once a week or once a fortnight on our fortnightly lesson rota. PSE stands for Personal and Social Education and would deal with topics like tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drug use, sex and relationships, emotional wellbeing and mental health, anti-bullying, healthy lifestyles, careers guidance, and finally economic wellbeing and financial capability. So we were taught which phone numbers to call if we were using or "feeling pressured" to use drugs (Talk to Frank), or if we were experiencing depression and suicidal thoughts (Samaritans), and also if we were being bullied, or abused by family members (Childline). We were taught what the effects were of smoking, drinking alcohol, and using illegal drugs, including showing us how badly they damaged our organs (I'm sure I remember seeing a real lung that had been subject to immense amounts of tar from smoking), as well as more basic things like oral hygiene, dealing with body odour and new hygiene issues post-puberty. We were shown how to correctly use condoms, and I'm pretty sure I remember the girls were taken into a different class to be taught specific things about their menstrual cycles, pregnancies, and how to use more gender-specific forms of contraception. Lots of talk about the risks of pregnancies and STDs. Then we were also taught more basic things like how to eat properly and exercise, as well as how to correctly fill out cheques, etc. I'm not sure if this is specific to the education offered in MY school, or if it was common across Wales, but that was my own experience. I actually feel like I got a very good drug & sex education. I think they could have improved in some areas like talking about same-sex relationships, gender roles, etc, and maybe gone into more detail on the topic of financial responsibility. I'd have loved to have properly known how to fill out tax returns as well. However, it's been 9 years since I was in school so some of those things may very well have improved.

[@connielouise5377]

I read the title as "drug addiction" and it was really confusing

[@Heather-Hope]

I'm from the midlands in the UK and I've heard those same two acid trip stories, the man who peeled himself like an orange and the man who stabbed himself repeatedly in the chest because he thought he was covered in giant spiders

[@amberjupe390]

Would have made my day if the lion was called DAREL ya know the Drug Abuse Resistance Education Lion 🦁 🤷‍♀️ 😂

[@fil_is_weird1936]

I'm from Italy, in my school when I was in 7th or 8th grade we did an anti tobacco "program", it was also trying to deal with bullying and making friends, but it didn't work, it was kinda ridiculous. We had to act out scenes, like "you're at a party, you only know the birthdayboy, he introduces you to his friend and then leaves to talk to other people, what do you do?". It wasn't really about drugs in general, I think they never mention any of them, not even weed. It was mostly to stop kids from smoking cigarettes. The funny thing was that the two teachers who held it smoked regularly. That's the closest thing we had to an antidrug program.

[@liammargetts]

There was a day off timetable for drug awareness near my GCSEs, so I chose to skip school and study for my exams instead of learning about hyperbolic stories of drugs

[@ashrunsaway1134]

I went to a pretty rough school in the Uk, I remember once going into the girl's bathroom in year 7, nearly choking on the vape smoke filling it so much you could see the huge clouds of the stuff. I never went to the bathroom in school again.

[@elliea5326]

Ok who remembers the lifebus I’m the uk how remembers Harold the giraffe 😂😂

[@issyjane249]

We had Healthy Harold who was a giraffe in Australia too!

[@belovedhao]

I don't remember Harold but I know one of my mum's friends know and experienced Harold the Giraffe

[@Theeny]

I went to an all girls school in Wales and our drugs education was taught my the girls a few years older than us with no adult supervision. That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, but it was so much more useful to have someone from your own generation talk to you honestly about drugs than just being 'scared straight' by teachers.

[@valentinabrognoli]

i’m from italy and i don’t remember having any type of drug education in school.. they were kind of obsessed with drunk driving education though

[@regenbogentraumerin]

Same in Germany. We had parents come to our school talking about their children who died in car crashes because the driver was drunk, they showed us photos of cars wrapped around trees, sheets covering bodies that obviously were missing limbs and so on. But I don't remember any drug education, they just talked about used syringes and drug addicts once during HIV education.

[@rebeccahildebrand4703]

Hi, I'm from Denmark, and as part of the drug education/information program at my secondary school, the school had brought forth past addicts to tell their story of drug- and alcohol abuse. They were very honest about everything, and albeit their intention was to install fear and apprehension they also were honest about how great of a time the drugs gave them. I am to this day still very much against and fearful of drugs, but i know that the people I know who are consuming drugs and alcohol, at least they make informed decisions and are aware of the various consequences.

[@christina.lynn97]

I remember in elementary and middle school we had this mascot as a dog dressed in a private detective with a magnifying glass teach us to say "I don't do drugs" in order to avoid getting into drugs. Did anybody else remember this because this was in Texas?

[@Tessirith7654]

At my schools (Scotland,UK) we got basic drug education from p6-7(11-12) and again in third year(14-15) and 5-6th year(16-18). We got a different police officer in each time (usually drug squad) to describe the different effects and show us with the actual drugs what they looked like. In 5-6 we got sent to a 3 day long theatre group re-enactments of people that died taking drugs. From choking on vomit(cold veg soup), to heart attacks etc. Also did rail safety/drunk driving. Where they rolled fake severed head and limbs covered in fake blood across the floor. Also did group trust and bonding exercises. One officer brought his drug/police dog in with him for us to meet.

[@jennylogan3147]

Thanks for putting the age up I don't know the American or English school system

[@baltoen_]

In 10th grade (15-16 years old) we had a group of former drug addicts visit. They also asked us to raise our hand if we had tried drugs (besides alcohol) and at lest half of our teachers raised their hands. They focused more on the effects than telling us don’t do it. We were split into groups and could talk and ask questions with a former addict. Ours said: Of course I’m not going to recommend it, but if you want to smoke weed be in a safe place and don’t do it when you are feeling down. Only when you are in a good place with people you trust.

[@lilikatz5431]

MY SCHOOL RIPPED ME OFF I didn't get a stuffed lion when I graduated dare I'm suing all I got was a gigantic tee shirt that still doesn't fit me

[@thehalfbloodserb]

Aside from the iconic Harold the Giraffe, we also had a guy come in to our school in years 11 and 12 to discuss alcohol and drugs. He basically framed it as "you WILL at some point in the future find yourself in a situation where someone near you is doing drugs" and discussed the effects and dangers of the most probable drugs we'd encounter. He didn't over-dramatise it; just gave us the facts so we know what can happen. He also gave a lot of advice for what to do if you want to drink alcohol and how to effectively take care of a drunk person. I'm really glad I didn't have the American education

[@juliaemily8638]

This is a really interesting comparison to make. Awesome video 👍

[@mirensummers7633]

Drug education in my final years of school in the UK was actually kinda good. People from a local charity came to talk about STIs and drug use. They told us about people to contact if we or someone we knew was struggling with addiction, they told us how to stay safe if we were to take any drugs, and gave us these plugs you put in bottles to prevent people spiking you. They knew their stuff, not telling us false dated info, and they weren't preachy

[@olivetruman8]

I am from the UK and in primary school we had the DARE programme in year 5 and 6.

[@emily9904]

Same I thought it was something all schools did but obviously not

[@christinebell9060]

They are still doing the DARE program in America at my school. We had to learn the same song once we were in first grade and sang it once every week all through the rest of elementary school so for about five to six years straight! I am in high school and I still remember it.

[@Carina5707]

Californian here. We didn't have DARE, we had Red Ribbon week for drug awareness, but I don't remember anything about it except that we tied red ribbons on the chain link fences lol

[@asideofpickles574]

Lol that’s because the education in California is crap

[@danielapanneflek7837]

In the Netherlands we get in high school 2 to 3 lesson for 1 or 2 hours where a ex drug addict comes in and has a little presentation where he or she talks about the different types of drug and gives you all the information on what the do and statistics and tells his or her story and has a chat with the class about what we did or didn't do. It's a really friendly atmosphere.

[@meriam832]

6:20 "then you do heroin-" well that escalated quickly

[@slowdriver6868]

Currently 16 in the UK, the best thing to keep you away from drugs is knowledge of others who've suffered from them. I've vowed to never try smoking as my grandad died from suffocation after cigarettes completely fucked up his lungs, stopping him from breathing. Plus I KNOW I'd get hooked if I tried even one, just Asperger's things lol

[@seacucumber679]

question- has you school taught you anything about drugs? cause mine hasn't.

[@slowdriver6868]

@@seacucumber679 nah, not as of late. They're just banned on the premises, plus we're over the road from a police station so they know we wouldn't try anything lmao

[@seacucumber679]

@@slowdriver6868 here they just don't talk about it lol

[@slowdriver6868]

@@seacucumber679 I think for my case it's just that they know the area so we are all presumed to have personal experience with them/know people who use them

[@seacucumber679]

@@slowdriver6868 they just don't teach us for some reason.

[@elle.n163]

Can u pls do a reacting video to Eurovision 2019 Pls. BTW I love your videos and you are an amazing youtuber. Keep making amazing videos.

[@chloeana130]

I go to Vassar College in the US and all the drug and alcohol education is really cool. There is definitely a focus on making informed decisions. We have drug testing kits available, and often talk about "here what happens if you do x drug". They make sure to talk about both positives and negatives, which I really appreciate, and also in terms of alcohol I know new for this school year the campaign is "one less" so just encouraging students to drink one less drink... I think that this approach has been super helpful in not scarring me like high school did, but making sure I make informed decisions instead.