Youth Growth & Training Curriculum

ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND OTHER DRUG FREE LIFESTYLES T his session introduces basic drug education through interactive group discussions along with the showing of videos followed by group activities and participants being given an opportunity to discuss their understanding of how alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have affected themselves or other family members. The activities will explain how alcohol, tobacco and other drugs can create adverse health factors that may lead to impaired physical or mental capacity or early death. The session will help participants to understand that addiction to alcohol, tobacco or other drugs is an illness that can be prevented or treated. The session will help the participants to increase their understanding of the impact that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have on minorities and women. The participants will also be provided with information aimed to impart an understanding of why it is so important that pregnant women should not use alcohol, tobacco and other drugs while they are pregnant as a means of preventing fetal damage to their unborn child. This session is designed to enable participants to acquire an increased understanding of the harmful potential related to the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. It is also designed to enable participants to understand that the underage use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs is illicit and that it is perfectly acceptable for individuals to make a lifelong choice to abstain from the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.

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