Health EDU

Extra Credit Drug and Alcohol HE 366

Students can earn only up to 15 points

1) Current Events Articles: Select a news article from a newspaper, magazine or internet news site that is an example of a drug or alcohol issue. Get a copy of the article. Write a summary of the article including the following: 1) Write a summary of the story that is being described or addressed. 2) What are the proposed solutions (if any) or approaches to the problem? 3) Are differing views described in the article? If so, what are those views? 4) Describe your personal or professional opinions about the issue and the article itself. (5 points)

2) Local Activities: If you are participating in a local activity write a summary of this event relating to Alcohol and Drug prevention. This may include dorm or campus forums/discussions, community speakers, AOD presentations, or something you are currently involved in. (10 points)

3) Go to an AA or Alanon meeting: or any 12 step meeting. Make sure it is an open meeting where guests are welcome. Write up the time/day, location and name of the meeting. Write up a summary of the topic of the meeting and what your personal response is to this experience. Meeting schedual: www.open.org/~aasalem for AA; www.na.org/ for NA meetings(15 points)

4) Movie review: there are several movies that have AOD as a theme;( 28 Days, Traffic, Clean and Sober; Blow, 21 Grams). Select one of these and write up a movie review. Write a summary of the story that is being described or addressed. Did the information in the movie relate to information we covered in class? Observe and write the symptoms of addiction, or the bio-psycho-social aspects of addiction, or the social/legal aspects of addiction that are shown in the show. What did you learn about AOD from the story? If you know of another movie not mentioned here write up a review—would you recommend this for this class?(10 Points)