Drug Awareness

As an educator, you should to know the facts about drugs and their effects and how to respond when asked questions about them.  Here are some web resources that may help.

Drug Prevention

• National Anti-Drug Strategy
  
  
  • Prevention

Tobacco and Substance Abuse

• School Drug and Alcohol Programs in BC
  
  
• Tobacco facts and resources (includes links to programs to help people quit smoking)
  
  
• Teen alcohol and drug abuse
  
  
• Responding to teen substance use

Crystal Meth

• What is Crystal Meth? - Request a Crystal Meth Info Show for your school

• CrystalMethBC - The Crystal Meth Prevention Society of BC provides drug awareness and prevention programs to combat crystal meth and other illicit drug use
   
  
• No2meth (for Teachers) (includes information about several drugs — including tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, and methamphetamine — and offers tools to teach this information)