Question 1: What are the reasons that adolescents use drugs and what causes experimentation to lead to substance use?
Question 2: Many schools and law-enforcement agencies in Canada work in concert to provide drug prevention information to children and adolescents, with police officers taking on the role of drug prevention educators. What might be some advantages and disadvantages of police officers taking on this role in substance use prevention?
Question 3: If you were responsible for designing a program in your community to dissuade youth from impaired driving, what would you focus on?
Question 4: Choose any Province of your choice in Canada, how well does alcohol, tobacco, electronic cigarette, and cannabis regulations (minimum-age limits, rules surrounding advertising, licensing of drinking establishments, anti-smoking regulations, etc.) reduce adolescent substance use or make it less harmful? In what ways do you feel these regulations inadvertently contribute to adolescent substance use or make it more harmful?
Question 5: As a result of the association between substance use and crime, substance use issues become of concern to health-care and criminal justice systems, among others. What do you think would be the ideal balance between the health-care and criminal justice systems to reduce and prevent the harms associated with substance use?