Title 20 — EducationRelease 119-73
§111 Study in certain schools of effect of alcoholic drinks and narcotics
Title 20 › Chapter CHAPTER 7— - INSTRUCTION AS TO NATURE AND EFFECT OF ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND NARCOTICS › § 111
Summary
Schools must teach about alcoholic drinks and narcotics and how they affect the body. This must be part of physiology and hygiene lessons and taught as fully as other required subjects, using textbooks when other subjects use them. The rule covers public and common schools, military and naval schools and academies, the District of Columbia, and all Indian and colored schools in the Territories.
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Title 20, §111
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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.
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20 U.S.C. § 111
Title 20 — Education
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73