Drug Educ

• This is an NSTP requirement
• You are passionate about helping peers to be drug-free
• Presentation Outline

  1. Personal Story

  2. Drug Prevention Updates

  3. NSTP Student's Roles in Drug Prevention

  4. Preventive Drug Education Strategies
• Personal Story


  We can improve the quality of our lives
• Drug Prevention


  Is not only effective, but also cost-efficient
• Evidence Based-Prevention Principles


  • Prevention should utilize various settings that include the family, school, workplace and community
  • Prevention message should be delivered positively. It should focus on wellness and do not use scare tactics or fear arousal strategies
  • Interactive strategies should be used in delivering prevention messages
  • Prevention services should be available for the 3 categories of target populations
• Scare Program & Just Say No Program


  Is not effective in producing POSITIVE OUTCOMES for drug use
• Just say no


  Only isolates students from their peer groups and ignore the larger socio economic realities that contributes to alcohol and drugs
• Prevention Science


  Is an emerging field that focuses on the development of evidence-based strategies that reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors to improve the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities
• The Etiology Model


  Explains how the interactions between the personal and environmental factors both in the micro and macro-level systems can lead to non-use or substance use and these systems can also be used as entry points for prevention initiatives
• Bombarding with drug-related information causing to arouse curiosity and usage of illegal drugs/ substance abuse
• Use of exaggerated claims and unrealistic images cause more HARM than GOOD
• As NSTP Students

  1. Legislative actions (e.g., lobbying policies)

  2. Create anti-drug youth groups

  3. Develop materials and utilize social media

  4. Fight stigma and discrimination

  5. Make a research proposal
• To NSTP Coordinators & teachers

  1. Value-based Strategies

  2. Name the risk and protective factors

  3. Personal shields/ Support System

  4. What is your stand

  5. Student's to identify their social positions

  6. Case scenarios to draw out answers

  7. Role Plays

  8. Active learning in the cognitive and behavioral level

  9. Interviews

  10. To know how in the community level are the substance abuse being perceived

  11. For students to see and understand the issue in various standpoints

  12. Service Learning

  13. Reflect learning, and share their learnings

  14. Buzz session

  15. A group discussion that can make students feel like issues/ problems is a collective effort and they are not alone in solving their problems

  16. Class research

  17. Let them analyze the consequence not only on the school, but at the community level

  18. Analyzing ads

  19. For opening discussions

  20. How Ads are used for propaganda techniques

  21. How societal values and cultural factors impact alcohol use

  22. Health Contracts

  23. We can challenge our students to make health contracts or a personal commitment, helping them to make actions plans can facilitate application of learning

  24. Wellness action plan
• NSTP Common Module Topic 8: Drug Education
• Outline

  • Drug-related Terms and Concepts
  • Substance Use Disorder
  • DSM-5
  • Effects of Substance Use
  • Legal Implications of Drug Use
  • Skills for a Substance-Free Life
  • Healthful Alternatives to Drug Use
• Drug vs. Medicine

  Drug - any chemical agent that alters the biochemical or physiological processes of tissues and organisms<|>Medicine - a drug with curative properties
• Medicine Misuse


  Use of a medicine for a purpose that is not consistent with medical guidelines (not following the doctor's prescription)
• Medical Abuse


  Use of medicine that is not prescribed to "feel high" or to chase a euphoric feeling
• Substance Use Disorder


  A chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive substance seeking and use, despite harmful consequences
• Risk Factors

  • Genetic Predisposition
  • Personality
  • Overall Health Conditions
• Risk Factors in schools

  • School failure
  • Low commitment to school
  • Rejection by peers (social isolates)
  • Association with deviant and substance-using peers
• Protective factors

  • Self-control
  • Academic competence
  • School-based drug education
  • Strong neighborhood attachments
  • Parents' attitudes and the kind of home they provide
  • Enriched environments
  • Enforcement of limits and discipline, forming strong bonds with children, and monitoring children
• DSM-5

  The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition or the DSM 5 of the American Psychiatric Association does not use drug addiction or dependence but rather it refers to problematic use of drugs as substance use disorder or as a substance-induced disorder
• The Cost of Substance Use

  • Personal Health - accidents, diseases, mental illness, depression, death
  • Relationships - marital conflict, disrupted friendships, child abuse, violence
  • Social Functioning - dangerous behavior, financial problem, employment difficulty, legal problems
• Skills for a Substance-Free Life

  1. Assertive Skill - The OFNR is an acronym that stands for Observation, Feelings, Need, and Request, which you can use to remember the steps to assertive action

  2. Decision Making Skill - The acronym here is DECIDE, so it's very easy to remember. The DECIDE here stands for

  3. Resistance/ Refusal Skill - Maintain eye contact, then say no

  4. Match your verbal with nonverbal signals in refusing the offer

  5. Use the broken record technique, where you say 'no' as many times as needed to express your refusal

  6. Use the cold shoulder approach

  7. Give reasons or excuses
• Healthful Alternative to Drug Use

  • Spiritual activities
  • Volunteer work
  • Join organizations
• Evidence-based prevention principles should utilize various settings, should be delivered positively, and interactive strategies should be used
• Prevention Standards


  Allow us to go beyond programs that merely advocate saying no
• Prevention Science


  Focuses on the development of evidence-based strategies that reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors to improve the health
• Unrealistic claims and unrealistic images have no evidence showing they have been efficient
• Role of NSTP Students

  1. Ways to navigate the use of substance

  2. RA 9165

  3. Anti-drug Youth Group

  4. Programs

  5. Workshops

  6. Good use of social media

  7. Fight stigma and Discrimination

  8. Role of Research Proposals