20 U.S.C. § 111 — Study in certain schools of effect of alcoholic drinks and narcotics

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This law requires public schools to teach about the effects of alcohol and drugs on the body. It must be taught alongside physiology and hygiene, using textbooks, just like other required subjects. It applies to schools in the Territories, military and naval academies, the District of Columbia, and Indian and colored schools in the Territories.

Schools must teach how alcoholic drinks and narcotics affect the human body. This must be taught as part of the physiology and hygiene curriculum. It must be taught as seriously and thoroughly as any other required subject, using textbooks that students actually hold, wherever other subjects are taught that way. This requirement applies to every common or public school, and to military and naval schools, throughout the Territories, at the Military and Naval Academies of the United States, in the District of Columbia, and in all Indian and "colored" schools in the Territories of the United States — those are the exact terms the statute uses.

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The nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and special instruction as to their effects upon the human system, in connection with the several divisions of the subject of physiology and hygiene, shall be included in the branches of study taught in the common or public schools, and in the military and naval schools, and shall be studied and taught as thoroughly and in the same manner as other like required branches are in said schools, by the use of textbooks in the hands of pupils where other branches are thus studied in said schools, and by all pupils in all said schools throughout the Territories, in the Military and Naval Academies of the United States, and in the District of Columbia, and in all Indian and colored schools in the Territories of the United States.

Source credit: (May 20, 1886, ch. 362, § 1, 24 Stat. 69.)

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1886Enacted · Act of May 20, 1886, ch. 362 · 24 Stat. 69

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 362 on 1886-05-20.

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