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Standard 2.0 Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
Students will demonstrate the ability to use drug knowledge, decision-making skills, and health enhancing strategies to address, the use, non-use, and abuse of medications, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
Topic
A. Medicine
Indicator
- 1. Identify practices for using medicine safely.
Objective
- Describe rules for taking medicine safely.
Topic
B. Tobacco
Indicator
- 1. Identify how tobacco use affects health.
Objectives
- Discuss how tobacco use can become a habit.
- Summarize the benefits of not using tobacco.
Topic
C. Alcohol
Indicator
- 1. Identify physical consequences of the use of alcohol.
Objective
- Describe the short term effects of alcohol use on the body, for example blurred vision, lack of coordination, and slow reaction time.
Topic
E. Drugs and the Law
Indicator
- 1. Identify ways to say no to unsafe medicine/drug use.
Objectives
- Distinguish between illegal drugs and medicine.
- Demonstrate refusal skills to resist pressure to use drugs.
