Session 1: The beginning of a drug dealer
Aim of session:
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To determine the young people's attitudes towards drug dealing and
encourage a discussion of why drug dealing occurs and their opinions around
it.
You will need:
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Survey 1 - attitudes to drug dealing
Drug dealing work pack : Defining a drug dealer and reasons for dealing
Plan:
1. Introduce the aims and outline the programme for the next 6 weeks. Create
ground rules.
2. Produce survey 1 to the young people; prompt them to answer all questions
honestly as this is a measurement of their attitude to their view on their
actions to the offence committed. Ensure they understand the questions
asked but refrain from too much discussion as your views could affect their
answers given, thus want them to answer from their own views rather than the
ideal or what we would perceive as right or what we want to see.
3. Defining a drug dealer work sheet should allow individuals to express their
own views of what they believe a drug dealer is.
4. Reasons for drug dealing work sheet should be filled out by student identifying
the reasons why drug dealing begins and continues. Once completed give
feedback and generate discussion on their chosen points.
Other discussion points:
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All further discussion points can be found in the drugs intervention
folder and information work pack for drug dealing.
Session 2 - Consequences of selling drugs
Aim of session:
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To highlight the life of a drug dealing as to whether it is worth it and if the
gains outweigh the losses, while also highlighting the dangers and pitfalls in
drug dealing on themselves and those around them.
You will need:
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Survey 1 - attitudes to drug dealing
USB with one day video clips 4 and 7
Drug dealing work pack: Lifestyle of a drug dealer and consequences of drug
dealing
Plan:
1. Introduce what is going to be done in the session and reminder of
ground rules.
2. Watch 'One day' video clips where the first one highlights the
complications and repercussions of drug dealing, while also showing
the effects it has on the close ones and the community.
3. Life style of a drug dealer work sheet, which should allow the student to
reflect on themselves and in general the gains and losses of drug
dealing for the dealer. Use guide discussion points to provoke
discussion and to allow the student to become open about what the
work sheet is asking them.
4. Consequences of drug dealing work sheet should allow the student to
identify, while highlighting the consequences that drug dealing has on
themselves, ones who are close to them and the community.
Other discussion points:
 All further discussion points can be found in the drugs intervention
folder and information work pack for drug dealing.
Session 3 - The effects of selling drugs
Aim of session:
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To Highlight how drugs effect people, why it is illegal and the law surrounding
being a drug dealer
You will need:
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Drug dealing work pack: Drugs classes, effects and the law
Images of the effect that long term drug taking has on a person
Drug cards
Plan:
1. Introduce what the session will involve and a reminder of the ground
rules.
2. Firstly the subject is on the individual being able to identify which drugs
are illegal.
3. The student are then given some pictures to evaluate of individuals
which have been taking drugs from a number of years and guessing
which drug that person may have been addicted to.
4. Now they will be given drug cards which are informative about drugs,
effects and class, also the sentence for dealing them which they
themselves have to put back together.
Other discussion points:
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All further discussion points can be found in the drug intervention folder
and information work pack for drug dealing.
Session 4 - What do you think about drug dealers?
Aim of session:
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To generate a discussion drugs and drug dealing, allowing them to express
themselves on statements given. This session will also get them to highlight
characteristics of drug dealers good and bad which will be used in the
following session.
You will need:
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Statement cards
Drug dealing work pack: Characteristics of a drug dealer
Plan:
1. Introduce what the session will involve and a reminder of the ground
rules.
2. The drug statement cards are a set of cards with quotes that generate
discussion; this allows the individual a session where they can talk
freely and openly about their opinions on particular quotes.
3. The characteristics of a drug dealer work sheet should be worked on
together to think of as many possible characteristics that drug dealers
generally have. This will be used in the next session.
Other discussion points:
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All further discussion points can be found in the drug intervention folder
and information work pack for drug dealing.
Session 5 - Working vs dealing
Aim of session:
 To look into the differences of an individual who is working and one that is
dealing, through writing job descriptions. This session will also allow the
individual to think of reasons why not to become a dealer, which could also be
bought into a discussion.
You will need:
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Drug dealing work pack: Job descriptions and beyond dealing
Examples of job descriptions
Plan:
1. Introduce what the session will involve and a reminder of the ground
rules.
2. The individual should try to write two job descriptions, one for a working
individual and one for a drug dealer which should then be compared
after completing and possibly a discussion on how they view these two
differences.
3. The individual should try to write down up to 10 reasons why people
should not become drug dealers. This can be from the differences
between working and dealers to the effects on the community and
themselves.
Other discussion points:
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All further discussion points can be found in the drug intervention folder
and information work pack for drug dealing.
Session 6 – Let skills pay the bills
Aim of session:
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To look into the financial side of drug dealing and seeing if it is beneficial,
while looking into types of jobs which drug dealers may have the skills for or
be good at.
You will need:
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Drug dealing work pack: Wages of a drug dealer, cost of dealing, job types
and behaviour change
Video clip of a boy earning £20,000 a day
 Survey and feedback form
Plan:
1. Introduce what the session will involve and a reminder of the ground
rules.
2. To watch a video clip of a school boy who earns £20,000 a day from
drug dealing, which highlights that if he put this energy into a legitimate
sources then these dealers would be good at business.
3. This work sheet will allow the individual to work out some figures of
what they may have earned and what it actually works out to be. Then
they can be presented with a working out that has already been done.
4. How to apply skills to the working world will allow the individual to
assess what skills/characteristics that they may have worked on in
session 4 to what kind of jobs.
5. Behaviour change will allow the individual to reflect on their drug
dealing habits.
6. A finishing survey and feedback will then need to be completed.
Other discussion points:
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All further discussion points can be found in the drug intervention folder
and information work pack for drug dealing.