Understanding Addiction

Lesson 1: What is addiction? Are you an addict?

Online Multimedia Presentation

This teacher-led presentation gets students to think about the nature of addiction, with a specific focus on addiction to screens / social media.

Lesson 2: How does addiction impact upon lives? How do people triumph over addiction?

In this lesson students will learn about different types of addiction, why people get addicted in different ways, the impact it has upon their lives and how they were able to triumph over it.

Step 1: Download this worksheet.

Step 2: Watch the following video clips to complete it.

Alcohol:


Cannabis:


Gambling:


Prescription Drugs:


Steroids:


Heroin:


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