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Keeping A Healthy Body

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The goal of this exercise is to understand that drug use effects many areas of the body and that the effects are progressively damaging and dangerous.

  1. Begin this exercise by explaining to your students that four body systems are impacted by drug use:
    • the digestive system
    • the nervous system
    • the reproductive system
    • and the respiratory system
  2. Assign your students to research the effects of an assigned drug on all four body systems listed above through the Prevlink web site other resources listed in the Links section. They should create a list the negative effects of the assigned on each system, if any. This exercise can be performed in groups or by individual students.
  3. Have each student/group present their findings to the class in an oral report or write a brief paper to submit to you.
 


 
 
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