Format
1. This program begins with an introductory video.
2. We then discuss different forms of opioids including prescription and non-prescription forms, with an emphasis on LEAN and Fentanyl.
3. We view a video of Big Pharma’s impact on the opioid crisis and discuss how the crisis developed over the years.
4. Participants engage in an activity to understand how opioid addiction works in the brain and how the effects can be long-lasting.
5. We discuss the long-term effects of opioid abuse and participates watch a demonstration done by the McMillen Educator.
6. Students will briefly examine medically assisted treatment options available and overdose medication.
Objectives
1.Define opioid as any drug derived from opium whether it is natural, synthetic, or a combination.
2.Explain that opioids were created for pain relief and come in many forms (pill, powder, liquid, tar like substance).
3.List at least three statistics for how opioids affect the community.
4.Describe how opioid addiction works in the brain and list possible opioid withdrawal symptoms.
5.Explain the difference between dependence and addiction.
6. Describe Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) as one possible path to recovery.
7.Confirm that opioid overdose/poisoning may be reversed, but that the body and the person are never the same.
8.Define prescription drug abuse as using another person’s prescription or using a prescription drug in a manner not prescribed.
9 Identify a minimum of three ways that we can stop the opioid crisis.
10..Describe the type of person who can become addicted to opioids.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
National Health Education Standards: 1,2,3,4,5
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State Standards
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8.1.1, 8.1.4, 8.1.5, 8.1.6, 8.1.7, 8.1.8, 8.2.1, 8.2.2, 8.2.3, 8.2.4, 8.2.5, 8.2.8, 8.2.9, 8.3.4, 8.4.6, 8.5.3, 8.5.5