Opioids: Upstander Skills for Refusing Harmful Substances and Avoiding Risky Situations includes a 261 page e-book. PowerPoint presentations for each grade level and a parent presentation is also included. This publication is available only in digital format, either on disc or through online access.

It will help you meet the desperate need for students to arm themselves with current facts about substance abuse paired with effective refusal and upstander strategies they can use to help protect themselves and their peers. They learn and practice best strategies they can use to help them avoid or deal with risky situations involving opioids and other harmful substances.

Topics include:

1. Facts!: Students learn current information about opioids and other harmful substances through lessons with PowerPoint slides.
   Grade Levels
   # of Lessons
   
   
   5 & 6
   8
   
   
   7 & 8
   8
   
   
   9 & 10
   6
   
   
2. Upstander Action Skills
3. TIPS for Upstanders in Risky Situations
4. Practice, Practice, Practice: Students become confident using refusal skills
5. Showtime: Students perform their "conversational upstander action skills"
6. Parent Presentation