Drug and Alcohol Attention Grabbers™ - Sweet Choices

Over the next few weeks, NIMCO will be sharing some "Attention Grabber™" ideas that you can use in class to help teach about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. The “Attention Grabbers™” are designed to assist with teaching and speaking about the adverse effects alcohol and drugs cause to all who are exposed to these addictive drugs. We live in a visual society, making visual aids a needed resource to assist with speaking or teaching thus enabling you to reach your entire audience. The suggestions are designed to assist your alcohol and drug education programs. You may expound upon each scenario as your presentation or speaking time allows. Each “Attention Grabber™” is very cost effective to present with the suggested visual aids to reiterate the information given during your presentation. These "Attention Grabber™" ideas are also great for Red Ribbon Week!

Supplies:

Bag of Chocolate candy (if possible pick a new type that has just been introduced to the market)

Directions:

Hold up the bag of chocolates and ask how many in the group have tried this candy? Explain that you

have been told this candy is great and you just bought this bag because you wanted to try it. While holding the bag speak as if you are thinking aloud. Say something like this: I know that if I try this and like it, I will probably want the whole bag and that is a lot of calories. If I like this candy, I will want to eat more and before long, I will have to deal with the consequences that eating a lot of candy will cause. My clothes will become too tight (chocolate and pounds are best friends). My complexion will be affected, and I will have to spend extra money on acne treatment. My teeth will be more prone to cavities from all the sugar. Maybe I shouldn’t try this candy and then I wouldn’t have to worry about all of these things. Ask the group what they think?

Allow time for the group to respond. Some will say that you should not try the candy and others may say just try one or two. Parallel this analogy with trying drugs or alcohol. Even though you are aware of all the problems and health hazards that are involved with drugs and alcohol some people still try them. Before you know what happens, you are addicted.

There are absolutely NO guarantees that when you try drugs or alcohol just one time you will not become addicted, or suffer effects for the rest of your life. Just like the chocolate candy, that I really love there is no way I could eat just one piece and quit. Take the bag of chocolate and put it in the trash can.

Tell the group to never let anyone tell you “just try it one time”, it won’t hurt you. Every alcoholic started with just one drink and every drug addict started with just one pill, snort, injection, smoke, etc. Is it really worth the risk.

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Drug and Alcohol Attention Grabbers™ - Create Your Own Card

Over the next few weeks, NIMCO will be sharing some "Attention Grabber™" ideas that you can use in class to help teach about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. The “Attention Grabbers™” are designed to assist with teaching and speaking about the adverse effects alcohol and drugs cause to all who are exposed to these addictive drugs. We live in a visual society, making visual aids a needed resource to assist with speaking or teaching thus enabling you to reach your entire audience. The suggestions are designed to assist your alcohol and drug education programs. You may expound upon each scenario as your presentation or speaking time allows. Each “Attention Grabber™” is very cost effective to present with the suggested visual aids to reiterate the information given during your presentation. These "Attention Grabber™" ideas are also great for Red Ribbon Week!

Supplies:

• Construction Paper or copy Paper---color is optional

• Markers or crayons

Directions:

Start by explaining that in today’s society we have greeting cards for just about everything, and you are giving each one of them the opportunity to design a new and unique style card. 

Pass out the paper and markers or crayons and divide the class in groups. Have the first group design a

card for someone with blurred vision. Have the second group design a card that would be appropriate for a person who has slurred speech. Have the third group design a card for someone in prison. Have the fourth group design a card for someone who has major mood swings. The fifth group to design a card for a family who has lost a loved one in a drunk driving accident.

After the groups have finished have someone from each group read their card. You may ask as many students as time allows to read their cards. Be sure that at least one person from each group reads their card aloud. When they have finished presenting their cards, explain the following. “If you make the decision to use drugs or alcohol any of these cards may be sent to you.” Explain these are just a few of the possible side effects you will experience if you make the decision to use drugs or alcohol.

Tell the group that each person has a personal power to say NO to drugs and alcohol. Don’t let the

addiction of drugs or alcohol take your power away.

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Drug and Alcohol Attention Grabbers™ - A Picture is worth a Thousand Words

Over the next few weeks, NIMCO will be sharing some "Attention Grabber™" ideas that you can use in class to help teach about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. The “Attention Grabbers™” are designed to assist with teaching and speaking about the adverse effects alcohol and drugs cause to all who are exposed to these addictive drugs. We live in a visual society, making visual aids a needed resource to assist with speaking or teaching thus enabling you to reach your entire audience. The suggestions are designed to assist your alcohol and drug education programs. You may expound upon each scenario as your presentation or speaking time allows. Each “Attention Grabber™” is very cost effective to present with the suggested visual aids to reiterate the information given during your presentation. These "Attention Grabber™" ideas are also great for Red Ribbon Week!

Supplies:

• Poster concerning the hazards of drug or alcohol use

• Black Bows

• Pictures of caskets or funerals

• A tombstone made out of wood or cardboard with RIP inscribed on it

• Any other visual aid about drug or alcohol abuse

Directions:

Place these items around the room where you will be speaking. Proceed with your speaking session without mentioning the items on display. The ideal is to create a visual setting, which mimics your lecture content. Some research material about the visual items will be helpful to reiterate the subliminal message. Allow the student’s time to review the visual aids and ask questions concerning your displays. This gives you an opportunity to explain the meanings of your visual aids.  

This sets the stage for speaking about the fatal consequences alcohol or drugs may have on your life. As a speaker you may choose this as a visual aid to a prepared speech. This is also a stand alone presentation that will arouse interest in the assembled group. Be prepared to answer questions about the visual aids.

Suggested supplemental materials may be purchased at www.nimcoinc.com

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Drug and Alcohol Attention Grabbers™ - Funnel

Over the next few weeks, NIMCO will be sharing some "Attention Grabber™" ideas that you can use in class to help teach about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. The “Attention Grabbers™” are designed to assist with teaching and speaking about the adverse effects alcohol and drugs cause to all who are exposed to these addictive drugs. We live in a visual society, making visual aids a needed resource to assist with speaking or teaching thus enabling you to reach your entire audience. The suggestions are designed to assist your alcohol and drug education programs. You may expound upon each scenario as your presentation or speaking time allows. Each “Attention Grabber™” is very cost effective to present with the suggested visual aids to reiterate the information given during your presentation. These "Attention Grabber™" ideas are also great for Red Ribbon Week!

Supplies:

A large kitchen or automotive funnel

Directions:

Turn the funnel upside down and tell the students the funnel represents their choices in life. The narrow end represents when they were young and their parents made the majority of decisions concerning their daily activities. Point out that as you grow you have more opportunity to make your own choices. Explain that even while we do not have a choice about some things in life, there are just as many times we do have a choice. As we grow older, we have more opportunities to make choices. Use the funnel to show how it grows wider just as we grow older. Explain if you; choose to make poor choices; it will affect the rest of your life. Examples of poor choices would be to use drugs or alcohol. If you choose to use drugs or alcohol, the effects will be with you the rest of your life.  

Turn the funnel upside down and point out the fact that poor choices can shorten our lives as well as cause many health problems. Instead of growing outside the funnel where we have wide-open opportunities, we put ourselves back in the funnel with a limited lifestyle and limit our opportunities. You can incorporate many points into this lesson and you can make it as extensive as you desire. This is an excellent opportunity to talk about character building and future dreams and goals.

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