I. Topic: Common Drugs and Everyday Student Activity

II. Purpose: To help students become more aware of their use of common drugs, the activities that serve as antecedents to their use, and the consequences of using them.

III. Description: Outside of Class Activity

IV. Procedure:

1. Have students keep a log of their daily use of caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine. Give the entry sheet described below to your students. Place several entry forms on a single page and run off as many copies as you need. (Assuming that you can fit 3 entry forms on a page, and that students may use up to two pages per day, run off 14 pages per student as a minimum. Depending on their level of drug use, particularly for students who use tobacco products, you may need to have more forms available.)

2. Ask them to record their daily activities for a 7 day period. This will help them become more aware of how much they are using these particular drugs, what kinds of activities takes place immediately before using the drugs, and the nature of the consequences result from using the drug.

3. Have students bring their logs back to class after 7 days. Discuss what your students found in terms of the causes and consequences of drug use.

Daily Log
Antecedents and Consequences of Drug Use: Caffeine, Alcohol, and Nicotine

Day: M T W H F SA SU

Time: ____________

Drug Used: ___________

Psychological, Behavioral, or Environmental Antecedents (What things were going through your mind, what were you doing, or what was going on around you immediately before you used the drug):

Psychological or Behavioral Consequences (What resulted from the drug use? Emotionally, how did you feel during and after the drug use?)