1. STRATEGIES FOR PREVENTING USE OF DRUGS

2. Essential Question  What strategies could we use to stop and prevent drug use in our community?

3. Bath Salts  Designer drugs that are made to imitate the effects of other drugs.  Manufactured to simulate the effects of stimulants such as amphetamine and cocaine.  The white crystals resemble the legal bathing products  They chemically have nothing to do with actual bath salts.

4. Bath Salts  1. In 2009, “bath salts” started to become increasingly present in the United States via China and India.  2. Two years later, there was a noticeable rise in crime associated with “bath salts” in New York City.  3. A student at Rutgers University was beaten and murdered by long-time her boyfriend who was high on bath salts. This drug has been linked to self-mutilation, violence, hallucinations and extreme paranoia.  4. Increase in bath salt-related hospital visits; The most disturbing incidents included a man who broke into a Pennsylvania monastery and stabbed a priest and a West Virginia woman who tore off her own skin.

5. Bath Salts  5. The DEA moves to ban bath salts in September 2011.  6. In the same year, a West Virginia man claiming to be high on bath salts reportedly stabbed a neighbor’s goat (which belonged to a 4-year-old child) to death while wearing women's underwear. A pornographic magazine was lying near the pygmy goat.  7. In Florida, rumors that Rudy Eugene was high on bath salts when he chewed off the face of another man. Though speculation is still in the air regarding if he was actually high on the drug, though his behavior definitely drew more attention to the drug.  8. In May 2012, bath salts are banned along with synthetic marijuana.

6. A Quick Note  Individuals are only part of the key to curbing substance abuse. Schools and communities are working together on strategies for preventing use of drugs and other addictive substances.

7. School Efforts aall over the U.S. drug free school zones have been established tthese areas within 1,000 feet of schools and designated by signs, within which people caught possessing or selling drugs receive especially severe penalties eefforts in schools to cut down on drug abuse include drug ed. classes, zero tolerance policies and expulsion

8. Community Efforts ccommunities are also trying to curb the drug abuse tthey are initiating drug watches or organized community efforts by neighborhood residents to patrol, monitor, report, and otherwise try to stop drug deals and drug abuse bbecoming involved in these programs could protect you, your friends, and family

9. Timeline  Everyone will receive a slip of paper  Come to their board and chronologically place an event on the timeline  Try to keep the events in chronological order!

10. o Think about how alcohol abuse affected Sally’s life o How you would react if you were at the same party and Jason was your ride home?

11. Essential Question  What strategies could we use to stop and prevent drug use in our community?