Workshop Topics
- How Drugs Work: Identifying physical risks and consequences of substance use, including legal risks, accidents, and regret. How to keep safe and ask for support.
- Vaping & E-Cigs: Understanding electronic cigarettes, marketing influences, and misconceptions. Exploring the harms of nicotine on the developing brain and the environmental impact.
- Addiction & Recovery: Defining addiction, causes, signs, and symptoms. Exploring emotions around addiction & recovery, how to stay safe, and seeking support.
- Harm Reduction & Peer Pressure: Discussing substances, laws, and consequences. Identifying harm reduction strategies and applying them in real-world decision-making.
- Alcohol Awareness: Understanding why people drink, the risks of underage & binge drinking, managing peer pressure, and accessing guidance & support.
- Substances including Xanax, MDMA, Cocaine, and Mixing Drugs: Exploring legal and illegal drugs, their effects, reasons for use, and risks of poly-drug use.
- Substances and Pressure SEND: Identifying the physical and social risks of drug, alcohol, and smoking use, including increased emotional and legal risks. Keeping oneself and friends safe and knowing how to ask for support.