Help your students examine the positive as well as negative aspects of drug use with these thought-provoking resources. Students debate why someone might start to use drugs, including for cultural and religious reasons, and discuss ideas for changing behaviour.

Drugs worksheets and lesson plans examine the types of drug that KS3 and KS4 students are likely to encounter, and presents the long and short term effects from the point of view of both a user and a doctor.

Other lesson plans and drug worksheets deal with peer and advertising pressure; the costs and consequences of drug use; the impact on individuals and society; how to communicate with medical staff and where to go for help. For Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.