Table 1.
Year eight and year nine lesson plans
| Lesson | Year 8 | Year 9 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | WHAT IS A DRUG? - Introduction, agreements, definitions and drug categories | PRIORITIES AND CONCERNS - Identifying what young people value and worry about and what worries they have around drugs |
| 2 | ALCOHOL AND EFFECTS AND STANDARD DRINKS - How alcohol effects the body, assessing harms associated with use, pouring standard drinks, understanding blood alcohol content and safer levels of use | FACING FACTS AND FINDING SOLUTIONS - Alcohol and Cannabis- guidelines on use and the research that informs them |
| 3 | PARTY BEHAVIOURS AND ALCOHOL - The relationship between levels of alcohol use and the risk of harm to self and others | USING YOUR RESOURCES - Pouring standard drinks, matching harms to levels of alcohol use, identifying strategies to reduce harm |
| 4 | PREVALENCE AND NORMS - Dispelling myths about levels of drug use amongst young people, identifying reasons for use/non -use | WINDING UP, WINDING DOWN - Learning about the effects/risks of Amphetamine type stimulants, identifying drug-free ways of achieving 'high' and 'serene' states of mind |
| 5 | TOBACCO - Considering gender differences in relation to smoking; the impact of media messages | DRUGS, DISINHIBITION, SEXUAL VULNERABILITY AND VIOLENCE - Discussing sexual vulnerability in relation to drug use, identifying strategies for avoiding or reducing harm |
| 6 | CANNABIS - Information about cannabis and its effects, identifying risks associated with Cannabis use | INVISIBLE RISKS - Information about injecting drug use, blood-borne viruses and methods of protection |
| 7 | RISK REDUCTION - Assessing risk and developing strategies to avoid or minimise harm | PERSONAL CONFIDENCE - AND DRUG USE - Developing and rehearsing positive self talk, refusal skills and tactics for peer negotiation |
| 8 | INFLUENCES - Identifying social and media influences to use alcohol | GETTING HELP AND TALKING WITH ADULTS - Information about heroin, rehearsing steps for practical first aid in situations involving overdose, rehearsing help seeking with adults |
| 9 | OPTIONS AND DECISIONS - Generating and rehearsing strategies to reduce harms associated with drug use | |
| 10 | STANDING UP FOR YOURSELF - Providing peer support, using assertion skills in situations involving alcohol | |