Drugs and Substance Abuse
Be Smart - Don't Start
No Smoking Day - May 31

Drugs aren't cool or glamorous, and you don't have to be a heavy user for them
to mess up your life. Click here to watch pictures of people before and after drug abuse.

1. Smoking Survey

To learn more click on why people smoke?

What is in a cigarette? 
Find out which chemicals are in cigarettes Click here.
2. Which 5 dangerous chemicals are in a cigarette?

 

Smoking Facts            
Read the following facts about kids and smoking  click here.
3. Choose the correct word:

1. Many of the people who are sick because of smoking could probably live much longer if they didn't  Choose: think smoke eat .

2. Smoking can Choose: usual cause damage  some of the most important organs in your body.

3. The chemicals in cigarettes damage the lungs and cause heart disease and Choose: cancer health others .

4. It doesn't take long to be Choose: happy addicted healthy .

5. Most celebs Choose: do don't average smoke.

6. Even if you don't smoke, just being around people who are smoking can cause health Choose: changes problems eat

7. Secondhand smoke kills about 3,000 non-smokers each Choose: day! month! year! .

6. Smokeless tobacco also contains Choose: cigarettes Nicotine unhealthy

So much money goes up in flame 
The average cost of a pack of cigarettes  in Israel is around 20 Shekels.
Check how much money you spend each day!
5. Do you smoke?  No   Yes

Nargile

It is trendy today to smoke tobacco through water pipes called nargiles or hookahs. Many young people may be attracted to nargiles because they believe smoke that passes through water is somehow filtered and safer, unfortunately that's not true. Hookah Use May be as Dangerous as Smoking Cigarettes

Alcohol - you are what you drink  
 

Alcohol is a drug   alcohol is the one drug most often used by children ages 12-17.

It is estimated that more than four million teenagers consume alcohol in a given month.

Alcohol-related car crashes are the number-one killer of teens.

Alcohol is a factor in the other three leading causes of youth deaths:  homicides, suicides and drowning. Adapted from: http://www.whatsdrivingyou.org/

Alcohol and the body 
Play this game to learn which areas of the body are affected when drinking alcohol.

10. Unscramble the following words. Each is a body part that can be affected
or even damaged by drinking alcohol.

Body Parts affected by alcohol	Write here	Click here to see the answer:
YESE
ACHOMST
RABIN
THREA
GUESSOPHA
DOBLO
EVILR
DENKSIY
SGLNU
NESTINESTI

How will alcohol affect you? 
Alcohol affects people differently. Learn how it will affect you - click here.  
 11.  Write 3 things that determine how alcohol will affect you:


Alcohol Trivia Cards
Print the following trivia cards and display in your classroom. Click here.

Drinking and Driving   

More on Alcohol

12. Do you know which age group is most at risk of being involved in an accident?
17-19 year olds
20-24 year olds
25-30 year olds
Check your answers here.
13. What did you find out?


Your friend is drunk and wants to drive...   
14. What should you do? Click here to learn


Learn more about drinking and driving

A sobering poem  
Read the following poem about drinking & driving called A Sobering Poem
15. Answer the following questions:
a. Did the boy who went to the party drink?
No, he didn't
Yes he did
b. What happened to him?
He was drunk and caused an accident
He was hit by a drunk driver
His friends were involved in an accident
c. What would you tell your friends if they are thinking of drinking and driving?
Write in the Discussion Forum             

Jacqui's Story
You should know that not everyone who gets hit by a drunk driver dies.

Watch a video about Jacqui's story (Jacqui was burned alive by a drunk driver).
Answer the following questions:
a. Is Jacqui responsible for the accident?
Yes
No
b. What happened to Jacqui?
She was badly burned
She broke her hand
c. The young man who caused the accident was arrested for
one case of manslaughter
two cases of manslaughter
 

Drugs   

Learn what drugs can do to your body.  Click here.
 

16. Fill in the missing words - use the word bank

	Word Bank
Brain Inhalants can   your brain and slow it down.	heart attack
Mouth Your teeth might be	growing height
Lungs Your lungs will be coated with black	tumors
Heart Drugs can cause a	shrink
Liver You could have    and internal bleeding	tar
Kidneys If you use Ecstasy you might have	acne
Bones You might stop    and never reach your full  .	discolored
Skin You might have   pimples all over your face.	kidney failure

Get the facts on drugs - click here.
Read here about the effects of drugs
17. What did you learn that you didn't know before?

To learn more about drugs click here.
Learn about the long term effects of drugs on the brain (advanced)
How Does Cocaine Alter Neurotransmission? (advanced)