Students brainstorm and categorize problems caused by drug use. As students respond, ask them to identify a category in which the problem should be placed.
Pairs identify newspaper articles related to alcohol or other drug use.
Divide students into pairs and give each pair glue, construction paper, scissors and a newspaper. Tell pairs to find and cut out two newspaper articles that describe accidents or incidents related to drug use and to glue these to the construction paper. Pairs analyze newspaper articles. Drugs in the Newspaper Give each student a copy of the student page. Tell pairs to fill out the student page with the information from the articles they found.