Course curriculum

  • 1

    Craving- It Starts in the Brain

    • Review of Craving
    • Addiction: How Does it Start?
    • Activity: Hijacking Our Reward Center
    • Addiction: How Does it Get Out of Control?
    • Tolerance and Withdrawal
    • Craving & The Brain Quiz
  • 2

    Substances: What is This Stuff Anyway?

    • Drug Defined
    • Substances- Awareness of Their Effects and Risks
    • Prescription and OTC Drugs: When Medicine Becomes a Menace
    • Activity: Make it Match
    • Illegal Drugs: What Makes Them Against the Law?
    • But Marijuana is Legal Now, Right?
    • Alcohol and Tobacco: Legal- Still Controlled Substances.
    • Activity: Learn From Their Stories
    • Substances Quiz
  • 3

    Culture’s Impact: Negative and Positive

    • The Indulgence Culture
    • Risk Factors: Culture’s Negative Impact
    • Protective Factors: Culture’s Positive Impact
    • Activity: Conversation- What did I learn? What do I want to know?
    • The Normalizing Culture
    • Activity: Accountable to the Truth
    • Culture's Impact Quiz
  • 4

    Consequences: Physical, Emotional and Social

    • Physical Fallout: Damaging Development and Other Body Systems
    • Emotional Toll: The Mental and Emotional Consequences
    • Activity: Avoidance and Hope for Treatment
    • PDF to Print: Drugs- Risky vs. Wise choice match up
    • Socially Celebrated or Social Stigma
    • Activity: Say No- How to Have the Conversation
    • Consequences Quiz
  • 5

    Tools to Avoid Risky Behaviors

    • Talk With Your Support System
    • Impulse and Stress are Not Cuss Words
    • Impulse and Stress- Part 2
    • Activity: Avoid the Risk of FOMO
    • Substance Responsibility
    • Activity: Goals for Good Habits
    • PDF to print- Goals for Good Habits- Avoiding Substances
    • Tools to Avoid Risky Behaviors Quiz
    • Final Project Options
    • Sources- Avoiding Substances