Teach young learners that most drug addictions end in one of three outcomes: treatment, jail, or death. After watching a short video segment on the consequences of drug abuse, class members discuss what they viewed and consider what advice they could provide younger siblings about avoiding drugs.

Concepts

drugs, drug abuse, drug addiction, prescription drugs, opioids, addiction

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Additional Tags

health

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Instructional Ideas

• Connect the lesson between language arts and health for the writing portion
• Invite a speaker who is recovering from drug addiction and can provide messages of hope to your class

Classroom Considerations

• Designed for high school classes but applicable to middle schoolers as well
• The seventh part of an eight-lesson series on prescription drug addiction

Pros

• Emphasizes the importance of making healthy decisions to avoid undesirable outcomes
• Provides all necessary worksheets and video links

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.6.1.a SL.6.2 SL.7.1.a SL.7.2 SL.8.1.a SL.8.2 SL.9-10.1.a SL.9-10.2 SL.11-12.1.a SL.11-12.2