Scholastic Update articles from May 1997

Scholastic Update archives from May 1997

Teens & drugs: how big a crisis?(Cover Story)
May 2, 1997... Teen drug use is skyrocketing -- and the shock waves are being felt from the White House to the schoolhouse. What's behind the teen drug crisis? What can be done about it? January 3, Bedford, Texas -- 13-year-old Derrick Lee Dowse died of an...

Taking aim at teens: America's war on drugs has a new target: you!
May 2, 1997... Just say no. Just don't do it. This is your brain on drugs. For years, everyone -- teachers, parents, police, politicians, TV, you name it -- has been telling you not to use drugs. Yet drug use among teenagers is increasing dramatically,...

The general's war: the drug czar has a message for teens - don't do drugs. (Barry R. McCaffrey)(Interview)
May 2, 1997... Q: Why are your efforts so focused on teenagers? A: It's clear that the earlier you start using drugs, say between the ages of 10 and 18, the more likely you are to use drugs as an adult. If you avoid such behavior during the formative years,...

Parents, kids, & drugs: just say what? (includes statistics about drug use by baby boomers)
May 2, 1997... How do parents who did drugs in the '60s just say no to their kids in the '90s? The Woodstock generation confronts a new youth rebellion: yours. When she was 9 years old, Heidi Goodlander decided to dig out an old home movie she'd seen a...

Climbing back from rock bottom: the story of how drugs drove one teen to crime, addiction, and desperation - before he found the strength to reclaim his life.
May 2, 1997... The story of how drugs drove one teen to crime, addiction, and desperation -- before he found the strength to reclaim his life It's lights out in lockup. Bars slam shut at the juvenile detention center in Paramus, New Jersey. Josh Allison...

Zaire: center of chaos and strife.
May 2, 1997... Nature can bring stifling heat and insufferable droughts to summers in Central Africa. But this summer, the region could be engulfed by a wave of disasters created entirely by people. Over the last few years, news of massacres and revolutions...

Scandal sheet. (investigations involving Pres Bill Clinton)
May 2, 1997... Confidential documents disappear from government offices. Lobbyists drop by the White House for coffee, and leave behind checks for thousands of dollars. The FBI discovers that a foreign power wants to buy political influence -- and that the...

The fall of a president: the Watergate scandal changed American politics forever. (Pres Richard Nixon)
May 2, 1997... In the early morning hours of June 17, 1972, police in Washington, D.C., burst into the offices of the Democratic Party's national headquarters to investigate a burglary. What they found was no ordinary heist. Five men in dark business suits...