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Addiction Lesson Plan 1

This document provides guidance for teachers delivering a lesson on addiction. It notes that some students may find parts of the lesson triggering and instructs teachers to plan for student support. It previews optional follow-up tasks of varying complexity that teachers can choose from depending on time. The lesson content will include a video featuring personal stories of addiction and dependency.

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Addiction Lesson Plan 1

This document provides guidance for teachers delivering a lesson on addiction. It notes that some students may find parts of the lesson triggering and instructs teachers to plan for student support. It previews optional follow-up tasks of varying complexity that teachers can choose from depending on time. The lesson content will include a video featuring personal stories of addiction and dependency.

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Teacher Only Slide – Read Before Lesson

• This lesson includes a video that features individuals speaking about their own
dependencies, and one speaking about their father’s dependency. Please ensure
you are aware of any students in your class for whom this may be triggering, and
make a plan for what to do if it is too much for them. This may include speaking
with them before the lesson and offering them alternative provision, or letting
them know that they can leave the classroom at any time to go to a predetermined
location where they can have some quiet time. 
• There are several follow-up tasks provided. You may not have time to do all of
them in one lesson. Choose the ones that you feel are most applicable to your
setting. 
Addiction – Lesson 1 – Introduction to addiction
Starter:
Have a go at filling in your word map – there are no wrong answers!
‘Not having control over doing, taking or using
something to the point where it could be
harmful to you’ - NHS dependency, habit, compulsion

‘the fact or condition of being addicted to a


particular substance, thing, or activity’ – indifference, dislike, aversion
Google dictionary

I am worried that my gaming habits


are turning into an addiction.
Ground rules
Ground rules
• We will listen when someone else is speaking.
• We will be respectful to everyone’s opinions and beliefs.
• We will not laugh at anyone else’s input. 
• We will consider each topic maturely. 
• We will be inclusive of everyone.
• We will not use any offensive language.
• We will have a supportive environment that encourages questions. 
What did all the
people in the video
have in common?
Follow up task: Diamond Nine
1. Discuss with the person/people sitting next to you why a person with
dependency issues might not seek help. 
2. Write down your ideas in bullet point form.
3. Finally, decide which of these reasons you think are most important
and populate your diamond nine accordingly. 

Extension:
Complete the sentences at the bottom to explain your choices. 
Follow-up task: The Cycle of Change
Once someone has admitted that they have an addiction, a new process towards
recovery can begin. This is called the Cycle of Change. Look at the stages below,
see if you can match them to the correct description, and then put them into an order
that makes sense to you. 
• The person takes practical steps to bring about change in their life.
Action
• The person has no desire to change.
Preparation • When a person goes back a stage in the cycle, or starts carrying out the
Contemplation addictive behaviour again.
Maintenance • The person starts thinking about their situation and if they want to change
their behaviour.
Pre-Contemplation
• The person makes a decision to change their behaviour.
Lapse and Relapse 
• The person has achieved the change in their behaviour they wanted.
The cycle of change:
Pre- 1. Pre-contemplation: The person has no desire to
contemplation 
change.
2. Contemplation: The person starts thinking about
Lapse/
Contemplation their situation and if they want to change their
Relapse
behaviour.
3. Preparation: The person makes a decision to
change their behaviour.
4. Action: The person takes practical steps to bring
about change in their life.
Maintenance  Preparation
5. Maintenance: The person has achieved the change
in their behaviour they wanted. 
6. Lapse and relapse: This is when a person goes back
Action
a stage in the cycle, or starts carrying out the
addictive behaviour again.
Follow up task: 
Creative Writing Paragraph

Option 1:
Imagine that you are one of the people
from the video. Write a diary entry
reflecting on how you feel now that
you are no longer dependent.

Option 2:
Imagine you are a loved one of a
person from the video. Write a
reflective piece on what it has been like
helping them get to a stage of
recovery. 
Follow up task: Crossword

Word Bank

Stereotyping 
Dependency 
Support Groups
Clean
Peer Pressure
Withdrawal
Addiction 
Gambling 
Relapse
Maintenance 
Exit Ticket
Before leaving, please complete the Exit Ticket! You can write this
anonymously if you would like to  

One thing I learnt today was...

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One thing I am still wondering is...

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