Facilitator Summaries for Alcohol and Drug Prevention

Erin Collins

Facilitator questions for chapter 8 and 9

Chapter 8:

1) What are the reasons students use alcohol and other drugs?

2) What are the effects of alcohol?

3) What are the risk factors dealing with schools, individual/peer, family and the community?

4) How should we teach children about these affects? What techniques should we use?

5) What are the short term effects of marijuana and inhalants?

6) Should we implement drug prevention programs and what should they entitle?

Chapter 9:

1) What are the reasons that children begin to smoke?

2) What type of background knowledge should a teacher have about tobacco?

3) What are the short term effects of tobacco?

4) What are the long term effects of tobacco?

5) What is smokeless tobacco?

Chad Dorman

Ch. 8 Alcohol and Other Drug Use Prevention
Ch. 9 Tobacco Use Prevention

- prevention programs are necessary both for students and teachers
- as age increases with students, so do the usage of alcohol, tobacco and other
drugs
- affects academic performance
- costs alot of $
- School/peer risk factors
   - antisocial behavior
   - less committed to school
   - friends (influence or are influenced by)
- develop favorable attitudes towards drinking, smoking, etc.
- Family Risk Factors
   - family history of alcoholism or drug use
   - family management problems
   - low child expectations
- Community Risk Factors
   - economic/social deprivation
   - mobility
   - community laws
- the chapters then go into specific details of drinking, inhaling, prescription
drugs and smoking
- also, we discussed media - TV commercials such as those for Truth.com
- cigarette smoking the single most preventable cause of death in the US
- more than 3000 kids become smokers everyday

Georgia Kennedy

Grade: 4^th

Centering Ideas:

-Students should be conscious of consequences and effects of using drugs and should learn refusal skills.

-Students should be made aware that most young people don’t do drugs. (Positive Statistics about those who don’t use drugs.)

Influences:

Media (“Drug Culture”)

Peers

Family

Community

School

Skills:

Peer Resistance

Communication

Accessing Resources

Decision Making

Commonly Used Drugs:

Cigarettes

Alcohol

Marijuana

Prescription

Inhalants

What Kids Should Kids Know About Them:

Health Effects

Long Term Consequences

Symptoms Associated w/ Drug Use

Resources

Awareness of Legal Consequences

Make sure students can relate

Guest Speakers

Self-Advocacy