Prevention and school: Possible paths in drug education

Abstract

Drug prevention and education represent a challenge for the education area, requiring critical and current reflection from its actors. The proposal for new prevention methods should focus on human beings and their social relations, demanding new intervention strategies. Aiming at problematizing the transformations in the field of drug prevention and education at the school level, this text discusses possible options and paths to implement actions designed for developing autonomy, freedom, and individual and collective responsibility. These approaches seek to support education on preventive actions. Among them, life skills, proposed by the World Health Organization, have proven to be significant, producing expressive results for the construction of new possibilities and the formulation of effective proposals in the field of prevention in educational environments in a collective way.