Transcript Drugs and Alcohol - All Saints` Catholic Academy

1 Corinthians 3:16-17
“Do you not know that you are God's temple and
that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys
God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's
temple is holy, and you are that temple.”
What does this quote mean?
A substance that is taken to change
the way a person feels, thinks or
behaves.
A drug can be legal, illegal or
medicinal.
Drugs can become addicted if
misused or abused
On the board are 3 different titles. In
your groups, and discuss things that you
think are drugs.
Decide as a group where you think each
should go.
One member from each group come up
and add to the list!
‘Legal, Illegal and Medical’.
Different categories of harms and benefits:
Social – How do your friends and family feel? Does it change their
opinion of you?
Mental Health – How is your state of mind? Are you healthy?
Physical - Is your appearance changing? How?
How might some of the drugs on our list affect you?
Social Effects
• Homelessness
• Poverty
• Lack of friends and
family
• Unemployed or not
in education
Effects on Mental
Health
• Paranoia
• Schizophrenia
• Loss of memory
• Anxious
• Mood swings
Physical Effects
• Hair loss
• Bad breath
• Unclean clothes
• Unwashed
appearance
•Premature ageing
 Lets
think about:
◦ Legal drugs – are there any
benefits?
◦ What about medical drugs?
◦ Illegal drugs?
Your life of love and labour for souls was sacrificed amid the
horrors of a concentration camp and hastened to its end by
an injection of a deadly drug.
Look with compassion upon these victims who are now
entrapped in addiction to drugs and alcohol and whom we
now recommend to your powerful intercession.
Having offered your own life to preserve that of a family
man, we turn to you with trust, confident that you will
understand and help.
Obtain for us the grace never to withhold our love and
understanding, nor to fail in persevering prayer that the
enslaving bonds of addiction may be broken and that full
health and freedom may be restored to them whom we love.
We will never cease to be grateful to God who has helped us
and heard your prayer for us. Amen.