Maryland State Curriculum Content Standard 2: Students will demonstrate the ability to use drug knowledge, decision-making skills, and health enhancing strategies to address, the non-use, use, and abuse of medications, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
| A. Medicine | |
| 2.2.A.1 | Identify practices for using medicines safely. |
2.2.A.1.a. |
Describe rules for taking medicines safely. |
| B. Tobacco | |
| 2.2.B.1. | Identify how tobacco use harms the body. |
2.2.B.1.a. |
Discuss how tobacco use can become a habit. |
2.2.B.1.b. |
Summarize the benefits of not using tobacco. |
| C. Alcohol | |
| 2.2.C.1. | Identify physical consequences of the use of alcohol. |
2.2.C.1.a. |
Describe the short term effects of alcohol use on the body, for example blurred vision, lack of coordination, and slow reaction time. |
| E. Drugs and the Law | |
| 2.2.E.1. | Identify ways to say “no” to unsafe medicine/drug use. |
2.2.E.1.a. |
Distinguish between illegal drugs and medicine. |
2.2.E.1.b. |
Demonstrate refusal skills to resist pressure to use drugs. |