Inhalants and Brain Awareness Planner

This planner is designed to provide you with resources for your prevention activities focused around inhalants and brain awareness. There are links to reproducible materials, sample files, online materials, and other organizations that can provide support. Please check our Free Materials Catalog for more resources that are available in larger quantities that can be used as handouts! You are welcome to contact us for additional resources and ideas at info@prevlink.org or 800-648-4444. Good luck with your prevention efforts!

Use this planner for the following prevention activities:

-Brain Awareness Week
-National Inhalants and Poisons Week

Print Resources

Quick Facts About Inhalants Online Version
Don't Be a Veg-Head Poster PDF File
The Right Stuff: The Dangers of Inhalants Word search PDF File
Inhalant Facts for Parents PDF File
NIDA INFOFAX: Inhalants Online Version
NIDA Research Report Series: Inhalant Abuse Online Version
Tips For Teens About Inhalants Online Version
Making the Link: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs & Mental Health Online Version

Mind Over Matter: Complete set of posters Online Version
The Mind Over Matter series is designed to teach students in grades 5-9 about the biological effects of drug abuse on the body and brain.

Mind Over Matter: Hallucinogens (Poster) Online Version
Explains how hallucinogens affect the brain's communication centers as well as its ability to control sleep and emotions.

Mind Over Matter: Inhalants (Poster) Online Version
Describes how inhalants can wear away at the myelin sheath that protects the brain's nerve cells.

Mind Over Matter: Marijuana (Poster) Online Version
This poster contains scientific information on how marijuana acts in the body and brain, with an emphasis on its harmful effects.

Mind Over Matter: Methamphetamine (Poster) Online Version
This poster contains scientific information on how methamphetamine acts in the body and brain, with an emphasis on its harmful effects.

Mind Over Matter: Nicotine (Poster) Online Version
Explains scientifically how nicotine affects the entire body. Describes how the drug acts directly on the heart to change heart rate and blood pressure. Discusses dependency, treatment, and effects of long-term nicotine use.

Mind Over Matter: Opiates (Poster) Online Version
Explains how opiates affect the brain stem, the spinal cord, and the limbic system. Discusses dependency and the results of long-term exposure to opiates.

Mind Over Matter: Steroids (Poster) Online Version
Shows how anabolic steroids can cause liver damage and cancer and weaken the immune system.

Mind Over Matter: Stimulants (Poster) Online Version
Explores how stimulants change the way nerve cells communicate and affect neurotransmission.

Mind Over Matter: Teacher's Guide Online Version
The series encourages young teens to reject drug use by helping them understand the effects of drugs on the brain. A budding science student takes students on a scientific journey to learn about the brain's complex responses to specific drugs. Manual includes background materials, objectives and activities.

See our Online Materials Catalog for more resources! Click Here!

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illicit Drugs - Click Here
Parents - Click Here

Resource Links

National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week
http://www.inhalants.org

Aboriginal Youth Net Solvent Abuse Module
http://www.ayn.ca/modules/solvent/index.html

Nitrous Oxide Abuse Hotline
http://www.cganet.com/N2O/issues.htm

Brain Awareness Week
http://www.dana.org/brainweek/

The links are provided as a service to our users. Links to these Internet sites do not indicate endorsement of these sites or their contents by the Alcohol and Drug Information Clearinghouse or its funding sources.

This planner is designed to provide you with resources for your prevention activities focused around inhalants and brain awareness. There are links to reproducible materials, sample files, online materials, and other organizations that can provide support. Please check our Free Materials Catalog for more resources that are available in larger quantities that can be used as handouts! You are welcome to contact us for additional resources and ideas at info@prevlink.org or 800-648-4444. Good luck with your prevention efforts!

Use this planner for the following prevention activities:

-Brain Awareness Week
-National Inhalants and Poisons Week

Print Resources

Quick Facts About Inhalants Online Version
Don't Be a Veg-Head Poster PDF File
The Right Stuff: The Dangers of Inhalants Word search PDF File
Inhalant Facts for Parents PDF File
NIDA INFOFAX: Inhalants Online Version
NIDA Research Report Series: Inhalant Abuse Online Version
Tips For Teens About Inhalants Online Version
Making the Link: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs & Mental Health Online Version

Mind Over Matter: Complete set of posters Online Version
The Mind Over Matter series is designed to teach students in grades 5-9 about the biological effects of drug abuse on the body and brain.

Mind Over Matter: Hallucinogens (Poster) Online Version
Explains how hallucinogens affect the brain's communication centers as well as its ability to control sleep and emotions.

Mind Over Matter: Inhalants (Poster) Online Version
Describes how inhalants can wear away at the myelin sheath that protects the brain's nerve cells.

Mind Over Matter: Marijuana (Poster) Online Version
This poster contains scientific information on how marijuana acts in the body and brain, with an emphasis on its harmful effects.

Mind Over Matter: Methamphetamine (Poster) Online Version
This poster contains scientific information on how methamphetamine acts in the body and brain, with an emphasis on its harmful effects.

Mind Over Matter: Nicotine (Poster) Online Version
Explains scientifically how nicotine affects the entire body. Describes how the drug acts directly on the heart to change heart rate and blood pressure. Discusses dependency, treatment, and effects of long-term nicotine use.

Mind Over Matter: Opiates (Poster) Online Version
Explains how opiates affect the brain stem, the spinal cord, and the limbic system. Discusses dependency and the results of long-term exposure to opiates.

Mind Over Matter: Steroids (Poster) Online Version
Shows how anabolic steroids can cause liver damage and cancer and weaken the immune system.

Mind Over Matter: Stimulants (Poster) Online Version
Explores how stimulants change the way nerve cells communicate and affect neurotransmission.

Mind Over Matter: Teacher's Guide Online Version
The series encourages young teens to reject drug use by helping them understand the effects of drugs on the brain. A budding science student takes students on a scientific journey to learn about the brain's complex responses to specific drugs. Manual includes background materials, objectives and activities.

See our Online Materials Catalog for more resources! Click Here!

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illicit Drugs - Click Here
Parents - Click Here

Resource Links

National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week
http://www.inhalants.org

Aboriginal Youth Net Solvent Abuse Module
http://www.ayn.ca/modules/solvent/index.html

Nitrous Oxide Abuse Hotline
http://www.cganet.com/N2O/issues.htm

Brain Awareness Week
http://www.dana.org/brainweek/

The links are provided as a service to our users. Links to these Internet sites do not indicate endorsement of these sites or their contents by the Alcohol and Drug Information Clearinghouse or its funding sources.

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