SCIENCE BEHIND DRUGS AND PREVENTION – 7th - 8th Grades

30 Guests
Transportation
Private Instruction
Lesson Plans

Available Year Round
Handicap Accessibility

85 Minute Program - can be combined with other Health Education Programs at a discounted rate.

Group will be picked up in a clean school bus and transported to the Robert Crown Center for Health Education in the nearby western suburbs of Chicago.

Middle school opens doors for students. It also provides an environment where many kids are exposed to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs for the first time. The “Science Behind Drugs and Prevention” program helps kids make healthy choices when faced with the decision whether or not to try drugs. Participants learn how different drugs affect the respiratory, circulatory, and nervous systems as well as the mechanisms that cause addiction. Students next use audience response technology to gain insight into perceived versus actual drug use among their peers. Finally, students brainstorm refusal techniques to effectively turn down an offer of drugs from a peer.