Reporter's Notebook

Federal Agency To Send Anti-Drug Materials to All Middle Schools : Every middle school in America is about to get a hefty dose of drug-abuse-prevention materials, courtesy of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The federal agency plans to ship teacher's guides and fact sheets on drugs to all 18,084 public and private middle schools in the United States as early as this month.

The unusual federal campaign--which cost $80,000 to develop--is designed to educate teachers about which drug-prevention strategies work best in the classroom and to provide schools with the latest scientific facts about how drug...