Health Education: Substance Use

The topic of substance use aims to educate students on the effects of substance use on health, using refusal skills to avoid substance use, promoting the benefits of abstinence, and identifying available resources for treatment if needed.

ACTIVITIES

• ‘Real’-fusal Skills Activity – Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit
• How Nicotine Affects the Teen Brain | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (nih.gov)
• Document Your Natural High (naturalhigh.org)
• Express Your Natural High (naturalhigh.org)
• Research Your Natural High (naturalhigh.org) 

RESOURCES

• Youth Vaping Posters
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Arabic
  • Vietnamese
• Lesson Plans and Activities | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (nih.gov)
• Unit 8: E-cigarettes and Alcohol | Healthy Schools | CDC
• NWESD Vaping Prevention Toolkit (google.com)
• Best practices toolkit | The Athena Forum - Washington's Best Practices for Substance Abuse Prevention and Mental Health Promotion Guide
• Addiction: Types, Causes, and Solutions (For Teens) - YouTube 
• Susan's brain: The science of addiction - YouTube (Video) 
• My Vaping Mistake: How it became an addiction | AwesomenessTV - YouTube (Video) 
• Choose your peace of mind - YouTube (Video)
• Quit Vaping | Smokefree Teen 
• Teen Link Half Page Substance Use Flyer (teenlink.org)  
• Youth Vaping Prevention & Resources to Quit | Truth Initiative