Break the Cycle of Addiction
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Addiction: Substance Abuse Awareness Activities
Lesson Plans by Patrick Healey
While America has around five percent of the world’s population, it consumes about eighty percent of the world’s supply of painkillers. This has led to drug overdoses taking over the leading cause of accidental death in the United States. Educating our youth is a critical preventative method to curbing the opioid epidemic and substance abuse in general.
Cycle Chart Layout
by Lauren Ayube
The cycle layout is an option that gives users the ability to show sequences or processes that often repeat, but do not necessarily have to. Depending on how many steps there are to the cycle that you are showing, you can add as many cells as you need.
Storyboard Description
Break the Cycle of Addiction - Help students identify the cycle of addiction with a cycle chart
Storyboard Text
- GUILT / SHAME
- Why did I use them? I keep messing up. I need to tell them the truth.
- EMOTIONAL TRIGGER
- Man, They are always fighting. I wonder if it's about me.
- CRAVING TO USE
- Tyler has now worsened the situation. A healthier option would have been to talk to his parents about his feelings.
- Why are there pills missing?!
- This stage of the cycle is the underlining reason for the drug use. The trigger is out of Tyler's control.
- Tyler decided how to cope with stress. BREAK: This is the critical stage where someone can either use a drug to cope or find a healthier way to deal with the stress.
- There are some pills in the bathroom. Maybe that'll help.
- TEMPORARY RELIEF
- BREAKING CYCLE OF ADDICTION
- USE
- For now, Tyler's worries are not bothering him. However, the problem still exists and may worsen after the high is gone.
- The wrong decision was made to use a drug as a coping mechanism.
- Two may help me feel better. My parents don't care anyway.
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