What would be a good topic for a 15 minute presentation for a drug and alcohol addiction class?
Question by Cristi: What would be a good topic for a 15 minute presentation for a drug and alcohol addiction class?
I am taking a college course on drug and alcohol addiction and need a good topic to discuss for fifteen minutes (yuck!) lol! Does anyone have a good suggestion?
Well, I would think you would discuss drug and alcohol addition and how it affects people.
drug and alchohol related crime.
Would legalization of drugs and lower drinking ages lower usage and addiction rates?
Yes.
Why not present a little information of how easily drugs were obtained before they were regulated? Did you know that the Sears Catalog advertised opiates for sale through the mail to anyone who wanted them? Did you know that Coca Cola used to use cocaine as one of their early ingredients? Did you know that in the late 1800′s canned ether used to be used at parties to get everyone stoned and that this was perfectly legal to obtain this sedative through the mail or at your local pharmacy?
Copies of these early advertisements are easy to Google online and this whole subject is totally amazing to me. It shows you how casually people took the use of drugs and if you compare that to the Temperance Movements during that time, it’s amazing!
Solutions to drug and alcohol addiction; detox, rehab, AA/NA
How it affects a person and the people around them
Maybe come up with a question and an answer to that question that you can discuss
How about what friends and family can do to help a person with addiction? How they can get the right advice, keep good boundaries and stay strong to support the person they care for.