Dangers of using drugs
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| PC Malcolm Goodgear with children from Cefn Forest Primary School |
CHILDREN from Cefn Forest were taught about the perils and pitfalls of taking drugs at a lesson in their school.
Cefn Forest Primary School have been working with School Liaison Officer PC
Malcom Goodgear this year and previous years to teach pupils about drug use.
PC Goodgear spoke to year six pupils about the problems which can be caused by using drugs.
He asked the class questions to begin the lesson and wanted to know what drugs they knew about. They had all previously been to the play Wings to Fly about drug abuse.
The children were very knowledgeable about the different types of substances after learning about them in the play shown at Blackwood Miner's Institute.
Pupils Jonathan Watson and Lowrie Evans both ten are in class six and have been listening to the messages given to them.
Jonathan said: "We have learnt about what different drugs do. I think it is very useful to know about this for when were older. It teaches us what not to do."
Lowrie said: "We know not to take drugs. With something like steroids there are bad side effects and could ruin your life and stop you having kids."
Class teacher Jo Kelly said: "These lessons are very good for the children because they learn all about the problems getting into drugs can cause.
"They respond to PC Goodgear and they listen to what he has got to say."
The children enjoyed the lesson and learnt that buying a drug such as ecstasy can be dangerous because you don't know what is actually in the drug.
Drug manufacturers add such things as rat poisoning, bleach, ground brick dust and some can have lethal levels of MDMA the active ingredient in ecstasy.
Gwent police have liaison officers in the Caerphilly borough and work with many schools to teach children about drugs.
7:04am Monday 12th May 2008
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