Advantages And Disadvantages Of Critical Analysis

One positive approach is life skills training, which focuses on developing resistance skills for individuals. Evaluations show that this approach can be effective at curbing drug use.
Critical Analysis: This approach assumes that individuals who use drugs are poorly prepared to address the issues and pressures involved in daily decision making. This approach has shown positive results and could benefit from putting some emphasis on future expectations as an adult.
The “Just Say No” approach and the popular D.A.R.E program has failed to have any impact on drug use or abuse.
Critical Analysis: “Just Say No” and the D.A.R.E program only exist because people like the sound of it. As Americans we complain about where our money goes. Personally

I believe the state and governmental funds should require a certain level of success after a period of time. If that was the case, “Just Say No” and the D.A.R.E program would have to run off of volunteers and fundraisers, putting state and governmental money to better use.
The Monitoring the Future Project survey eighth, tenth, and twelfth grade students every year to measure drug use. The results show very little drug use beyond alcohol and suggest that most use is experimental.
Critical Analysis: 15 to 20 percent of students drop out and are not included in the senior survey, which makes these results misleading. Of those drop outs many are addicted to drugs.
Therapeutic communities, known as support groups, emphasize the provision of a supportive, highly structured, family–like atmosphere. These programs have been successful at reducing recidivism and drug use.
Critical Analysis: Having a supportive, highly structured, family atmosphere is essential to recovery. What many support groups do is identify themselves as “drug addicts.” Once addicted always addicted. If this approach would change, showing the members that you can overcome your addiction without continually being known as a drug addict, I believe it would largely benefit.
The underlying philosophy for drug courts is to use the courts authority to prompt participation in and successful completion of treatment aimed at reducing drug use and related criminal behavior.
Critical Analysis: The fact that many offenders use drugs and come to the juvenile justice system with an established pattern of substance use/abuse, places the system in the position of needing to respond to the individual as both an offender and someone who needs help. I believe this approach is the best way to handle juveniles. Children can be shaped and molded with the right attitude and attention.