Substance Use and Misuse Program
With over 30 modules, the substance use and misuse program provides students with facts about substances along with the psychosocial aspects of substance use and misuse. With our pre- and post-knowledge tests and attitude surveys, educators are able to gauge how much students have learned and how their attitudes about substances have changed.
Highlights
How Our Program Helps
We educate students by providing the facts about substances, we teach kids refusal skills, we discuss how drugs interact with the mind and body, and we talk about life after substance misuse.
Varied Module Topics
Educator Guides
Elective Credits
Featured Modules
This module is intended to teach students the basics about e-cigarettes and vaping. It was written by a 23-year-old who struggles with a vaping addiction and covers the basic facts along with a dialogue about making good decisions.
For students who have or are using. Student recalls life events (good/bad) that have brought them to their current point.
Identifies student strengths, resiliency, and helps them to understand their level of readiness to change.
Discusses Alcohol, properties, effects on users, poisoning, tolerance, common myths and perceptions, driving, warning signs.
Discusses Bath Salts, properties, effects on users, warning signs.
Discusses tobacco and nicotine, properties, effects on users, social implications, strategies to quit.
Discusses Cocaine, properties, effect on users, warning signs.
Discusses types of Hallucinogens and Dissociatives, properties, their effect on users, warning signs.
Discusses Heroin, properties, effect on users, warning signs
Discusses the effects of Inhalants and the Choking Game on the teen body and brain. Addresses the social implications and warning signs.
Discusses MDMA, properties, effect on users, warning signs
Discusses Marijuana properties, concentrates, edibles, strains, effect on users, synthesizing, common myths and perceptions, driving, medicinal debate.
Discusses Methamphetamine, properties, the effects on users, warning signs.
Discusses Prescription Drugs, properties, classes, effects on users, mixing, combination overdoses, warning signs.
Discusses Synthetic Marijuana, properties, effects on users, warning signs.
This module is intended to teach students the basics about e-cigarettes and vaping. It was written by a 23-year-old who struggles with a vaping addiction and covers the basic facts along with a dialogue about making good decisions.
Discusses Prescription Drugs, properties, classes, effects on users, mixing, combination overdoses, warning signs.
Assesses student knowledge pre-module.
Assesses student attitude pre-module. Intended for use with students who have begun experimenting with substances.
Discusses the emotional turmoil created by drugs and explains how the body/brain connection contribute to the peaks and valleys.
Discusses mood changes, swings, and dependency caused by drug use
Discusses all aspects of teen brain affected by drug use
Discusses how drugs are metabolized into the body.
Teaches the different ways drugs are brought into the body as well as ways in which these different methods affect the body.
Discusses the effects of combining drugs/drug interactions.
Defines overdose.
Addresses the cycle of abuse and pitfalls that trap the user into continued abuse.
Discusses social aspect of drugs, the lures, the stigma, and loneliness.
In understanding resiliency, looking back at behaviors teens use to survive and thrive. Understanding the repercussions of such choices and finding alternatives.
Identifies student responsibilities, separates important responsibilities, and helps students to understand what is important in the moment.
For students who have or are using. Student recalls life events (good/bad) that have brought them to their current point.
For students struggling with drug use or abuse.
For kids struggling with substance use or abuse.
This module is for kids who are struggling with substance use or abuse and for those who may struggle to make healthy choices.
This module is for students struggling with substance use or abuse.
This module is for students struggling with substance use or abuse.
Identifies the reasons that kids use drugs - helps kids to understand that the reason is far from, "It's just fun".
Identifies student strengths, resiliency, and helps them to understand their level of readiness to change.
Helps describe common teen tendencies and introduces ways to control urges and unsafe behavior.
Assesses student attitude post-module.
Assesses student knowledge post-module.
Ties together all material and marks the end of coursework.