Topic 8 Reflection
1) Drugs, substance abuse and stages of addiction:
Watch the video: Through a Blue Lens
- Discuss your main take a-ways of the video
- What did you learn?
- How will this information be relevant/important to you?
- What do you need to do concerning drugs/addiction to keep yourself healthy?
Choose one episode to watch.
- Name and background of the person/people involved. (Choose 1).
- What is the drug substance being abused?
- Give details the stages of addiction the person went through.
- Give details about how the abuse is affecting the person’s life/a family/friends/career/health.
- What was the outcome for the individual? Do you think they will be successful in breaking the addiction? Why or why not? What has to happen for positive change to happen when someone has a substance addiction?
- Your personal reflections: what have you learned about addiction levels and cycles of addiction?