Goals and Objectives of this Course:

• Use prompts about students and drugs to describe assumptions and insights of practitioners, researchers and self, including how the information relates to professional education practice and growth.
• Learn how poverty and racism contribute to drug use and addiction in the United States.
• Explore student drug use and addiction statistics and the impact of trauma on addiction.
• Analyze the effects of drug use and addiction on student physical and mental health, and the implications for dying by suicide.
• Discover how to lead conversations with students about drug use and addiction with honesty and integrity.
• Gain an understanding about how drug education and support keep students safe.