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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Overview of Psychoactive Drugs

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of psychoactive drugs: depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and opiates.
Online Course
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Psychoactive Drugs: Depressants and Opiates

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of the effects the psychoactive drugs, depressants and opiates, have on the body.
Article
Biotechnology Institute

Biotechnology Institute: Your World: Learning About Drugs and Alcohol Through Biotechnology [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what role genetics plays in why people become drug and alcohol abusers, and investigate how biotechnology can help shape the future of medications used for addicts.
Interactive
Rice University

Rice University: Web Adventures: A Plaguing Problem

For Students 6th - 8th
In this game, students need to reconstruct lost knowledge about pain relieving drugs. They learn about concepts such as neurotransmission, the neurobiology and history underlying drug addiction, pain management, and analgesia.
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Partnership for Drug-Free Kids

Above the Influence: Drug Facts: Alcohol

For Students 9th - 10th
With this resource, teens can learn about facts about dangerous substances and their usage. Click on the dropdown menu at left to find out the alarming risks of alcohol and drug abuse.
Handout
Other

Partnership for Drug Free Kids: Heroin

For Students 9th - 10th
Get the facts of this Schedule I highly addictive drug that is running rampant in cities across the United States right now.
Article
National Museum of Science and Industry (UK)

National Museum of Science and Industry: Ingenious: Drugs

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents a short history of illegal drugs and discusses how societal mores and public policy have changed over time based on how people have used or abused addictive drugs.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Tragedy & Hope: Stories of Painkiller Addiction Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Tragedy & Hope is a PBS series that delves into the drug abuse crisis that has crippled all areas of the population. The series is intended for school staff and for anyone who works with young people. Lessons and activities are part...
Handout
National Institute on Drug Abuse

Nida: Prescription Drugs: Misuse of Prescription Drugs

For Students 9th - 10th
An article covering trends of prescription drug abuse in the 1990s. It separates and analyzes adult and adolescent trends and utilizes several color charts.
Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Dealing With Addiction

For Students 9th - 10th
Having an addiction can not only be unhealthy and expensive but it can also change who you are as a person. Since teenagers are still developing physically and mentally this can have a detrimental effect on who they will become. This...
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Drug Abuse and Drug Addiction

For Students 9th - 10th
Substance use disorders are a class of psychological disorder in which a person continues to use a substance, despite having significant health, social, and other negative consequences as a result of their substance use.
Handout
National Institute on Drug Abuse

National Institute on Drug Abuse: Club Drugs

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information and addresses concerns over popular "club drugs," including ecstasy. Read about the side effects of ecstasy, GHB, Ketamine, Rohypnol, Methamphetamine, and LSD.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Heads Up Real News About Drugs and Your Body

For Students 9th - 10th
Lots of news and information on drug abuse and what it can do to YOUR body! You can click on each individual drug to find out more about it, read questions and answers, test your knowledge, and finally find out the truth about harmful...
Website
The White House

The White House: Office of National Drug Control Policy

For Students 9th - 10th
Official website of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Website
Other

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University offers a unique think/action tank that engages all diciplines to study every form of substance abuse as it affects our society. The site organizes and provides...
Website
National Institute on Drug Abuse

Nida: Facts on Drugs: Tobacco, Nicotine, Vaping E Cigarettes

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive resource provides facts about tobacco addiction. Covers topics such as nicotine addicion, how and why tobacco is used and the adverse health effects of tobacco use.
Website
Other

Partnership for a Drug Free World: The Truth About Heroin

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of resources examines the drug situation around the world with a focus on heroin. Know what heroin is, how it is made, and what it is made from. Why is it such a threat?
Online Course
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Drug Use Prevention: School Programming and Protective Factors?

For Students 9th - 10th
Drug abuse prevention by way of the government and the ineffectiveness of programs aimed at stopping drug use in schools such as D.A.R.E. and Just Say No. Discussed are factors in families, schools, and communities that lead to stopping...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: The Drug Dope Show

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Understand the addiction process and factual information concerning various classes of drugs. Learn techniques for exerting positive peer pressure as well as withstanding negative peer pressure.
Online Course
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Drug Dependence and Homeostasis

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of homeostasis and related to drug dependence and drug overdose.
Online Course
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Routes of Drug Entry

For Students 9th - 10th
The routes of drug entry are explored including oral, inhalation, injection, transdermal, and intramuscular.
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Partnership for Drug-Free Kids

National Youth Anti Drug Media Campaign: Above the Influence

For Students 9th - 10th
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy created Above the Influence to decrease drug and alcohol use among teenagers through education, current events reporting, skills training, shared personal narratives, animated...
Website
National Institute on Drug Abuse

Prenatal Drug Exposure and Drug Abusing Environments

For Students 9th - 10th
Here, read findings based on clinical studies and medical research which focus on prenatal drug exposure and its short-term and long-term effects. Learn about how methamphetamine, cocaine, and alcohol can cause problems for developing...
Article
Other

March of Dimes: Illicit Drug Use During Pregnancy

For Students 9th - 10th
This article on prenatal exposure to ecstasy, heroin, cocaine, and other drugs discusses how illicit substances not only affect a developing baby, but also affect children long after the initial exposure.

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