New Jersey § 18a:40a-3

§ 18a:40a-3.

a. Upon completion of the curriculum guidelines required pursuant to section 2 of

this act, the Commissioner of Education, in consultation with the Commissioner of

Health, shall establish inservice workshops and training programs to train selected

public school teachers to teach an education program on drugs, alcohol, anabolic steroids,

tobacco and controlled dangerous substances. The inservice training programs may utilize existing county or regional offices,

or such other institutions, agencies or persons as the Commissioner of Education deems

appropriate. The programs and workshops shall provide instructional preparation for the teaching

of the drug, alcohol, anabolic steroids, tobacco and controlled dangerous substances

curriculum, and shall, in addition to the curriculum material, include information

on the history, pharmacology, physiology and psychosocial aspects of drugs, alcohol,

anabolic steroids, tobacco and controlled dangerous substances, symptomatic behavior

associated with substance use , the availability of rehabilitation and treatment programs, and the legal aspects

of substance use . Each local board of education shall provide time for the inservice training during

the usual school schedule in order to ensure that appropriate teaching staff members are prepared to teach the education program

in each grade in each school district. b. Upon completion of the initial inservice training program, the Commissioner of

Education shall ensure that programs and workshops that reflect the most current information on substance use are prepared and are made available to teaching staff members at regular intervals. c. In addition to providing inservice training programs for teaching staff members

who will provide instruction on substance use disorder in the public schools, the Commissioner of Education shall make these training programs

available to such other instructional and supervisory personnel as the commissioner deems necessary and appropriate.