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Welcome! Life is a journey everyone takes. There are unseen, misleading and dangerous obstacles that can get us off the safest road. We all can use road signs and "driving instructors" to help us avoid being hijacked, sidetracked, or broken down!
This blog is designed to provide Trinity students and their parents "road maps" that can enable our students to stay on the safest and smoothest road for their journey.

Daily in Drug Education class we will be discussing information obtained from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Most specifically we will be using the "Mind Over Matter" curriculum. You will find this same information through the Drug Education Resources link on the sidebar.

Parents may follow along with the daily classroom topics by reading this blog. By checking the NIDA website parents will be able to electronically view the same information that the students will be seeing in brochure form. It is our hope that this will facilitate even more discussion between parent and child!

Contact information: sfaulkner@trinitywildcats.com

Parents: we urge you to peruse any drug education website to ascertain it's age-level appropriateness for your child before allowing full access.

Bible Verse for this year: "Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil." Hebrews 5: 13 - 14




Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Session Two:  Day Eight  Finished our discussion on opiates.  Moved on to Hallucinogens.  Learned what a "trip" was - yes, it's much like a dream, except you are not asleep!  Also learned what a "flashback" was and the extreme danger of these chemicals being stored in the brain and becoming active at any unexpected time.

After our discussion about hallucinogens, I had the opportunity to share with the girls that not many people try this type of drug, because it seems so extremely dangerous.  I really tried to drive home the point to them that people don't begin using such a serious type of drug.  When someone moves into such serious drug use, it's because they took the first drink, which led to the first time being "drunk", which led to . . .  Or took that first puff of a cigarette, which led to that first puff of marijuana, which led to . . .

Most people begin using drugs as recreation, not everyone moves from recreation to addiction.  BUT SOME DO.  It is my prayer, that no more of my students will suffer from addiction.  I also pray that the LORD will allow the spirits of the girls in this class to be quick to follow Him so that He can provide the surest and most effective defense against drug addiction.

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