Substance Risk Awareness
Second Class (Requirement 7): Fitness
Second Class (Requirement 7): Fitness
Substance Risk Awareness
Substance Risk Awareness
7.c Participate in a school, community, or troop program on the dangers of using drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, and other practices that could be harmful to your health. Discuss your participation in the program with your family, and explain the dangers of substance addictions. Report to your Scoutmaster or other adult leader in your troop about which parts of the Scout Oath and Law relate to what you learned.
7.c Participate in a school, community, or troop program on the dangers of using drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, and other practices that could be harmful to your health. Discuss your participation in the program with your family, and explain the dangers of substance addictions. Report to your Scoutmaster or other adult leader in your troop about which parts of the Scout Oath and Law relate to what you learned.
Study Resources
Study Resources
Boy Scout Handbook, pages 94-98
Boy Scout Handbook, pages 94-98
Youtube Videos
Youtube Videos
Wasted: Exposing the Family Effect of Addiction (TEDx Talk: Sam Fowler@FurmanU)
Websites
Websites
*Note: This is a widely used world-wide program indirectly affiliated with the Church of Scientology
Some questions
Some questions
What are the short term and long term impacts of different substances?
What are the short term and long term impacts of different substances?
What are governments and others doing to promote prevention and safety?
What are governments and others doing to promote prevention and safety?
What can you do to stay healthy?
What can you do to stay healthy?
Which parts of the Scout Oath and Law relate to living a substance free life?
Which parts of the Scout Oath and Law relate to living a substance free life?
Reasons people give for starting to smoke, drink alcohol, or use drugs
Reasons people give for starting to smoke, drink alcohol, or use drugs
All my friends are doing it. (peer pressure)
All my friends are doing it. (peer pressure)
I want to get away from my problems
I want to get away from my problems
There is nothing else to do
There is nothing else to do
I want to feel grown up
I want to feel grown up
Scout OATH: On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
Scout LAW: A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.