Goals and objectives

Goals

• Class is open to those students who have received a sanction, who want information for course work, or who wish to have more imformation for personal reasons.
• Class in not therapeutic but educational. Students will not be sharing personal stories.
• We encourage students to look at their drinking history and think about their choices and decisions to decrease the negative consequences of alcohol consumption.
• To explore the physical and psychological effects of alcohol on the body.
• Review legal ramification of alcohol use.
• Review strategies to stay safe when drinking alcohol.

Objectives

• Be aware of the dangers of binge drinking - alcohol poisoning (sexual assault, vandalism, violence, drugging of drinks)
• Know that drinking patterns can lead to drinking habits and the correlaiton between genetics and alcoholism.
• Know the effects of drinking on marks and overall GPA.
• Be able to define a drinking problem.
• Be able to relate to other students' tragedies to own circumstances (stories from the newspaper).
• Know drinks can be drugged and how to protect own drinks.
• Know the physical effects of alcohol and the relationship with energy drinks (e.g. red bull) as well as ecstasy and marijuana.
• State CAMH's (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) low risk drinking guidelines.
• Know the drinking and driving issues whether they are the driver or the passenger.
• State where they can go for further help.