Drug Information

During this lesson the students:

• learn age appropriate information about drugs and their effects on the mind and body,
• have an opportunity to ask questions about drugs.

Feelings

During this lesson the students:

• begin to explore reasons why people use drugs,
• identify comfortable and uncomfortable feelings,
• learn how using drugs will change feelings only temporarily,
• identify activities they can be involved in that will change uncomfortable feelings in a healthy way.

Problem Solving

During this lesson the students:

• discuss healthy ways to solve problems without using drugs,
• learn the consequences of drug use to solve or deal with a problem.

Advertising

During this lesson the students:

• consider places where advertising exists,
• examine magazine ads and identify the drug the advertiser is promoting,
• learn about techniques advertisers use to encourage people to buy their product.

Refusal Skills

During this lesson the students:

• learn a variety of refusal skills they can employ when they are offered a drug,
• participate in role-plays that take place in a number of different settings and with different age groups of people pretending to offer a drug.

Self-image

During this lesson the students:

• learn the components of a healthy self-image and its role in helping people make healthy choices,
• consider the special qualities and characteristics they possess that are part of the way they see themselves.

Review

During this lesson the students:

• recall what they have learned during the previous lessons,
• have a final chance to ask questions of the PIP Prevention Educator.

Introduction to Drug Information

During this lesson the students:

• learn the definition of the word drug,
• learn information about the five most commonly used drugs in the United States, excluding medicines,
• get answers to questions they have about other drugs.

Communication

During this lesson the students:

• understand the relationship between the media and its impact on drug use,
• critically examine advertising for products that contain drugs,
• discuss the influence advertising has on the target audience.

Feelings

During this lesson the students:

• identify comfortable and uncomfortable feelings,
• reflect on the cause for the presence of the feelings,
• discuss how drug use masks feelings and inhibits the development of coping skills,
• learn the meaning of the word alternative,
• investigate specific healthy ways to change uncomfortable feelings.

Self-esteem

During this lesson the students:

• develop respect for individuality and self- acceptance,
• identify factors that contribute to a positive self-esteem,
• understand the connection between self-esteem and decisions regarding drug use.

Values

During this lesson the students:

• identify individual values,
• recognize how alcohol and other drug use can change values,
• develop an awareness of how to keep values strong,
• discuss how values affect the decision making process.

Information On Alcoholism

During this lesson the students:

• develop an awareness of alcoholism as a disease,
• examine how alcoholism affects families,
• learn how family members can cope when alcoholism exists in a family.

Peer Pressure

During this lesson the students:

• gain an awareness of how peer pressure can be used to influence decisions,
• understand the role of peer pressure in making decisions about drug use,
• learn and practice techniques to resist negative peer pressure.

Decision Making

During this lesson the students:

• understand that all decisions have positive or negative consequences,
• identify alternative solutions to problems,
• gain an awareness of how other people affect one’s decisions,
• examine how the use of drugs may affect one’s ability to make healthy decisions.

Drug Information Review

During this lesson the students:

• recall what they have learned during the previous lessons,
• have a final chance to ask questions of the PIP Prevention Educator.

Drug Information

During this lesson the students:

• arrive at a definition for the word drug,
• identify the five most commonly used drugs,
• learn factual information about drugs
• receive answers to their questions about drugs.

More Drug Information

During this lesson the students:

• share areas of further interest with the instructor
• receive clarification and reinforcement regarding drug information

Communication

During this lesson the students:

• identify legally advertised drugs,
• critically examine a number of advertising techniques,
• understand the relationship between the media and its impact on drug use.

Assertiveness/Decision Making

During this lesson the students:

• understand the decision making process,
• gain an awareness of how other people affect one’s decisions,
• learn the characteristics of assertive responses.

Values

During this lesson the students:

• identify individual values,
• recognize which values take priority over others,
• recognize how alcohol and other drug use can change values.

Alcoholism

During this lesson the students:

• develop an awareness of alcoholism as a disease,
• examine how alcoholism affects the entire family,
• understand that family members can’t cause, control or cure another person’s alcoholism,
• learn how family members can cope when alcoholism exists in a family.

Alcohol Information

During this lesson the students:

• learn accurate information about the effects of using alcohol,
• learn how relationships can be affected by alcohol use,
• understand the role of peer pressure in making decisions about alcohol use.

Self-esteem/Goals

During this lesson the students:

• identify goals they have for their future,
• become aware of challenges or obstacles they may face in achieving goals,
• find strengths in themselves that will help them overcome challeges,
• understand the relationship between self-esteem and drug use.

Drug Information Review

During this lesson the students:

• review information covered during the nine week program,
• have a final opportunity to ask questions.