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Drug Addition Is a Disease. So What Do WE Do About It? Lesson PlanDrug Addition Is a Disease. So What Do WE Do About It? Lesson Plan
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Drug Addition Is a Disease. So What Do WE Do About It?

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Students make predictions about the success rate for treatment of addiction compared with treatment for other chronic diseases. They evaluate case studies of individuals with different diseases to compare and contrast how the diseases are similar to, or d

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Grade
9th - 10th
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Health
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