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 | |
2.1.A.1. | Identify appropriate uses of medicine. |
2.1.A.1.a. |
Define the term drug. |
2.1.A.1.b. |
Define the term medicine. |
2.1.A.1.c. |
Describe the functions of medicines. |
B. Tobacco | |
2.1.B.1. | Identify how tobacco use harms health. |
2.1.B.1.a. |
List products containing tobacco. |
2.1.B.1.b. |
Describe the harmful effects of tobacco such as hard to breath, bad breath, stained teeth, cause disease. |
C. Alcohol | |
2.1.C.1. | Identify the physical effects of using alcohol. |
2.1.C.1.a. |
Distinguish alcohol as a drug. |
2.1.C.1.b. |
Identify products containing alcohol. |
2.1.C.1.c. |
Recognize that alcohol is unhealthy and illegal for children. |