Public attention has been drawn to the long time concern of the many governments on school youths being involved in drug addiction.  Drug users and peddlers have penetrated the school perimeter and introduced drugs to adolescents who are enticed to try. Aside from the psychological effects of drugs to an individual, delinquent behavior ensues when they get addicted to it.

Reports showed that a number of the youths are involved in steroid drugs and these drug activities are perpetuated inside the schools where students are supposed to learn productive things. A study conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University disclosed that a majority of high school students have personally witnessed drug activities inside the school periphery.  Among those drug-related activities that were reportedly witnessed were using and selling of illegal drugs, possession of drugs in pockets or lockers of students, and drug–intoxicated students attending classes. These drug-related activities were reportedly seen in schools at least once in a week. 

This scenario is not new and the drug-free school campaign has been there even during the time of Former President Reagan.  It was in his administration that crackdowns on campus drug rings were initiated through proposals to enlist student organizations, parents and teachers associations, as well as school administrators to help in the campaign. From such initiatives also emerged the concepts on mandatory and random drug testing in schools. 

As early as the 1980s, the rate of students involved in drugs was already alarming the government authorities such as the National Institute for Drug Abuse. Concern focused on the entry of cocaine on college and even high school campuses.  At that time, thirty percent of the senior class of every school used cocaine or approximately seventeen percent of the total school population.

With this, among the main agenda of the government in relation to drug campaign are forging   cooperation to combat drug proliferation, stronger enforcement to interdict supplies of these drugs to schoolchildren, serious efforts to prosecute the drug traffickers, intensified public awareness, and comprehensive rehabilitation campaign.

Drug addiction though has a different meaning on the youth, and as such, they never accept it as a form of delinquency.  Rehabilitation also proved futile while addiction continues to perpetuate inside places where most parents think their children are safe. Behavioral delinquencies have even magnified to result to campus drug-related crimes such as rapes, illegal possession of firearms, drug dealing, physical injuries, frat wars, and even death cases.

With this appalling picture of schools, individual state’s drug enforcement authorities have been closely monitoring campuses in their watch list to crackdown every single campus drug ring.  Recent crackdowns and arrest of students using drugs and student drug peddlers in prestigious universities have impressed upon students that government is serious to put a stop to this to save their futures.