Miles To Go Drug Prevention Education Video Series



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Warning signs for students

12th grade: Going to College

5th & 6th grade introductions for zoom led classes with Kelly


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11th grade: How To Help A Friend

8th grade: Alcohol and the Brain



Welcome To Miles To Go Drug Prevention Education Lecture Series Who, What, When, Where, Why



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Miles To Go began in 1996 as a lecture series for parents, teachers, and students primarily in private schools in California. After 24 years of in-person classroom presentations, the Corona virus pandemic has forced us to change the way we teach and communicate. To meet this challenge, we now offer a variety of solutions:• YouTube recorded presentations.• YouTube Live presentations with the opportunity for Q&A.• Zoom presentations to supplement your online class curriculum.• As a supplement, a homework component will be available on our website.• Our traditional LIVE in-person lectures once schools reopen after the stay-at-home lifts.We are currently booking all these options for the spring of 2020 and the entire 2020-2021 school year. If your school has never been able to experience our presentations in “real life,” now is the time!Contact us via email at: milestogo.drugedu@gmail.comWe are most excited, though, that we can now offer our lectures to anyone, anywhere, anytime.





7th - 12th graders: Introduction to Jonathan's Story



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This introduction is the first in the Miles To Go Lecture Series of drug prevention presentations for students. It is directly taken from our original live lecture in the classroom and is the path to begin the series for 7th – 12th graders. This presentation tells Jonathan’s story with his personal (and very old fashioned) pictures. Our experience indicates that students are much more engaged during drug education if they feel the presenters have a legitimate right to be there, and our introduction is designed to tell our life stories in such a way as to validate our position at the front of the room. While we purposefully use humor as a means to tell our stories, this presentation is anything but funny at its core. In it, we explore the nature of addiction and the costs it extracts, both from its victims and from the friends and loved ones of those who suffer from it. We also weave in stories that illustrate the concepts of social pressure, self-image, addictive use, heavy episodic use (or party use), and the use of drugs as tools that seem to make life more functional at first but ultimately wreak havoc.





8th - 12th graders: Addiction and the Five Warning Signs



Click on the picture to the left to go to this video.This lesson is for 8th grade through college. Most of our students have heard the word addiction thousands of times, but very few of them can actually define what it means. In this class, we start out by establishing the definition of addiction as outlined by the National Institutes of Health we then test their understanding with a theoretical situation. We follow this with a quick examination of the actual rates of addiction in any large, random population. The core of this exercise, though, is the discussion of five major risk factors for drug abuse and addiction.
The information presented in the five warning signs is of critical importance, and yet few people even know it exists. This module gives students the power to make decisions based on actual risks and helps them understand how unlikely it is they will escape teen drug use unscathed. It also looks at the widely misunderstood phenomenon of social pressure and the inaccurate assumption that people who use are better or more popular than people who don’t.




Miles To Go Drug Prevention Education – Going To College Parts 1,2 &3



This presentation explores one of the least discussed areas of drug education—what are the most pressing drug and alcohol challenges that confront high school seniors and college freshmen, and how can we equip them with the information they need to succeed? Over more than a decade of working with exiting seniors, we’ve realized many are under-prepared for and overconfident in their ability to deal with the drug and alcohol challenges they will face during the summer after high school and the first year of college.

  • Section One deals with the emotional hurdles and transitional events most seniors and incoming freshmen aren’t fully aware await them.
  • Section Two discusses how alcohol will seriously impact their lives, even if they don’t drink, and addresses the more common drugs they will need to deal with as newly minted adults.
  • Section Three deals with how alcohol affects sexual activity and sexual assault on college campuses and must be ordered separately to view it.

Some of the major issues addressed in each section included are listed below:



12th graders: Going To College Part 1



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Section One: What are the major stressors they will encounter?


The summer transition separation anxiety (for both students and parents) freshmen residence challenges, including homesickness, roommates, in loco parentis relationships, and long-distance romantic relationships academic challenges, including course load, campus familiarization, and first paper and test grades the euphoria and danger of new freedom buyer’s remorse and the temptation to transfer and the challenges of going home again during breaks. This section also includes a quick overview of the two mental health challenges with the most power to negatively affect academic performance: depression and anxiety.





12th graders: Going To College Part 2



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Section Two: What happens when alcohol becomes a coping mechanism for stress.


The actual vs. perceived use rates of both high school seniors and college freshmen usage rate profiles of those who do drink the challenge of the first six weeks of college the secondary effects of college drinking, including interrupted sleep and study, arguments, assaults, and property damage the costs and consequences of binge drinking high risk times of year and environments frats and sororities how marijuana affects college outcomes, and how ADD medication abuse actually affects academic success or failure.






12th graders: Going To College Part 3



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Section Three: Alcohol and Sex on College Campuses.


In our classroom presentations, this information normally is included in Section Two, but in that environment we are able to preface it with some trigger warnings and can also respond in real time to the distress it may cause some audience members. Since we don’t have that luxury in a video format, we have sequestered this material in a third section that you must actively request in order to view it. In this video we will address the role alcohol plays in sexual activity and sexual assault on college campuses. The material, while heartbreaking and disturbing, is crucial information if students want to reduce or eliminate the scourge of sexual assault they will encounter in college. While the majority of the information presented here deals with the costs and consequences of intoxicated sex and alcohol-related sexual assault, we also offer some proactive programs students can access and employ that have the potential to reduce the likelihood that this will happen in their lives. Please note: We don’t separate this material because we think it is less important—in fact, we consider it critical. We separate it so that a highly motivated middle-schooler looking to get a leg up on college prep won’t end up scarred for life after viewing a video they aren’t prepared for developmentally, emotionally or intellectually.


If you want to view this material, please contact us at: milestogo.drugedu@gmail.com





Miles To Go Drug Prevention Education - 5th Grade Introduction to Part One of Myths Around The World



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Welcome to Miles To Go’s Myths Around The World introduction video. This video will help you be prepared for our first drug prevention education class to be taught on zoom or live in your school classroom. Part one of the game Myths Around The World introduces the history of drugs to be played geographically.

This includes:

  • 5th grade class introduction to the game, preparation of how to play the game.
  • Discussions in this class Cocaine, Tobacco & Caffeine.

You will need the following tools:

  1. Your map sent to you by your teacher,
  2. a pencil,
  3. a flat hard surface to write on your map without harming your table, carpet, or floor.




6th Grade Myths Around The World Review And Prep



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This video is part 2 of Myths Around The World program.

The following is the 6th grade review of the previous year’s program in 5th grade. This 7 minute review is to remind my students about what we did last year and what to prepare for this year’s zoom class. Get ready to move forward in drug education with our 6th grade Myths Around The World.

This includes:

  • 5th grade class discussions of Cocaine, Tobacco & Caffeine.
  • The Body Model: The parts of the body we discuss in this class as it pertains to drug interactions in the human body includes the CNS (brain & spinal cord), liver, respiratory system (mouth, nose, lungs), & heart.




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