How Substance Use and Abuse Affect the Body

Understanding the Risks of Experimenting with Tobacco, Nicotine and Alcohol

Ratings 5.00 / 5.00

How Substance Use and Abuse Affect the Body

What You Will Learn!

Identify and explain the risks and/or harmful effects that vape products, tobacco products, nicotine, and alcohol have on the body.
Examine the effects of peer influence on decision making regarding the use and misuse of vape products, tobacco products, nicotine, and alcohol.
Recognize situations that may lead to the use of vape products, tobacco products and nicotine, and alcohol.
Understand how to make healthy decisions and set healthy boundaries when it comes to using vape products, tobacco products, nicotine, and alcohol.
Understand the ways in which vape products, tobacco, nicotine, and alcohol can affect physical, mental, emotional, and social health.

Description

In this course, students will follow three different characters and learn through following their stories. The first story follows Karina Costa, who has a negative reaction when she tries vaping for the first time that causes uncomfortable tension between her and her friend group. The second story follows Remi Trujillo, who begins frequently experimenting with tobacco products and nicotine and develops a nicotine dependency. The third story follows Thea Mavros, who develops an alcohol dependency while trying hard to impress her popular friends at multiple beach parties.

Through these three stories, students will learn the risks of using vape products, tobacco products, and alcohol; examine how the use of vape products, tobacco products, and alcohol can affect someone physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially; how to recognise and address situations that may lead to the use of vape products, tobacco products, and alcohol; understand how to make healthy decisions and set healthy boundaries when it comes to using vape products, tobacco products, and alcohol; and the hazards of the chemicals, such as nicotine, contained in vape and tobacco products and their effects on the body. This course comes with additional assessment questions to test the learner’s knowledge after completion of all characters’ stories.