Title 20 — EducationRelease 119-73not60
§111 Study in Certain Schools of Effect of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
Title 20 › Chapter 7— INSTRUCTION AS TO NATURE AND EFFECT OF ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND NARCOTICS › § 111
Summary
Public, common, and military and naval schools must teach how alcoholic drinks and narcotics affect the human body as part of physiology and hygiene. The lesson must be as thorough and taught the same way as other required subjects, using textbooks in students’ hands, in schools in the Territories, the U.S. Military and Naval Academies, the District of Columbia, and in 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 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60