drugs
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Some facts and figures about alcohol in the UK
Quiz about drugs, alcohol and cigarettes
Facts re. young people - smoking, drinking, drugs
A drugs game
What you need is some large pieces of paper and some marker pens. Get the young people into groups. Go round each group and give them a specific drug on a piece of paper (eg. heroin, cannabis, speed). Make sure no other groups know what drug they have. Get them to draw what that they think a drug user taking that drug would look like.
Finally, get all groups to come back into one large group with everyone in. One by one they present their piece of paper with their drug using character to the rest of the group. The group have to guess what drug each small group has been given by looking at the picture drawn
A drugs exercise
1. Write down or draw how drugs affect the life of a drug user. Maybe have a picture of a 'drug user' ready or get them to draw it
2. Secondly, draw or write down how it affects other people close to the drug user.
3. What impact does it have on the emergency services and other professionals?
4. Finally, how does it affect people in society?
Drug myths
Get the young people to draw pictures of stereotypical drug users and the drug that they think the person would use..
1. Student
2. Hippy
3. Posh person
4. Someone in a poor estate
5. A prostitute
6. A young person
Why do they think what they think? Discuss how accurate or not their ideas are.
Drug solutions
In groups, the young people have been promoted and are now in charge of the government department dealing with drugs..
What message would they give to young people about drugs? Do they want to design a poster? What about doing 2 posters, one listing the positive side of drugs, another the negative side.
How would they deal with the drug problem? Is it a problem? Can we solve it? Should we solve it?
A visit
To a drugs project or drugs scheme to talk to the people on the ground. Can the project arrange for the young people to talk to an addict or an ex-addict?
A Video
Can you get hold of a video that shows drugs misuse among children (or their families) perhaps in countries overseas such as Brazil or Colombia, Uganda, South Africa etc. where they show the vivid impact that drugs can have on families and young people, children and the associated risks. Here are some places that have resources:
