Table 1 Year eight and year nine lesson plans

1

WHAT IS A DRUG? - Introduction, agreements, definitions and drug categories

PRIORITIES AND CONCERNS - Identifying what young people value and worry about and what worries they have around drugs

2

ALCOHOL AND EFFECTS AND STANDARD DRINKS - How alcohol effects the body, assessing harms associated with use, pouring standard drinks, understanding blood alcohol content and safer levels of use

FACING FACTS AND FINDING SOLUTIONS - Alcohol and Cannabis- guidelines on use and the research that informs them

3

PARTY BEHAVIOURS AND ALCOHOL - The relationship between levels of alcohol use and the risk of harm to self and others

USING YOUR RESOURCES - Pouring standard drinks, matching harms to levels of alcohol use, identifying strategies to reduce harm

4

PREVALENCE AND NORMS - Dispelling myths about levels of drug use amongst young people, identifying reasons for use/non -use

WINDING UP, WINDING DOWN - Learning about the effects/risks of Amphetamine type stimulants, identifying drug-free ways of achieving 'high' and 'serene' states of mind

5

TOBACCO - Considering gender differences in relation to smoking; the impact of media messages

DRUGS, DISINHIBITION, SEXUAL VULNERABILITY AND VIOLENCE - Discussing sexual vulnerability in relation to drug use, identifying strategies for avoiding or reducing harm

6

CANNABIS - Information about cannabis and its effects, identifying risks associated with Cannabis use

INVISIBLE RISKS - Information about injecting drug use, blood-borne viruses and methods of protection

7

RISK REDUCTION - Assessing risk and developing strategies to avoid or minimise harm

PERSONAL CONFIDENCE - AND DRUG USE - Developing and rehearsing positive self talk, refusal skills and tactics for peer negotiation

8

INFLUENCES - Identifying social and media influences to use alcohol

GETTING HELP AND TALKING WITH ADULTS - Information about heroin, rehearsing steps for practical first aid in situations involving overdose, rehearsing help seeking with adults

9

OPTIONS AND DECISIONS - Generating and rehearsing strategies to reduce harms associated with drug use

10

STANDING UP FOR YOURSELF - Providing peer support, using assertion skills in situations involving alcohol