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Names: ___________________________________________________________________________ Per:_________ Date:______Drug Research Project
-Working with a partner you are to complete the research below and then create a tri-fold board to display the information and pictures gathered (example of tri-fold board on bottom of page). The board should contain lots of information and pictures and be creative and colorful in its display.
-Circle the drug you want to research. You may not choose a drug unless it is on this list and you will need to talk to your classmates because no two groups may research the same drug. Period 2 everyone should have a partner and the project is due with printed rubric and research on 5/7. Period 1 there will be one person working alone and the project is due with printed rubric and research on 5/4.
Oxycodone (same as Oxycontin) / Morphine / Heroin / Methadone / Rohypnol (the date rape drug) / LSD / PCP / Ketamine / GHB / Inhalants / Methamphetamine / Ecstasy / Coricidin / Cocaine / Anabolic Steroids / Percocet / Vicodin / Mushrooms (Psilocybin)
Answer the questions in 6 complete sentences and site at least one online website. Use this MLA form when citing your source:Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. S. H. Butcher. The Internet Classics Archive. Web Atomic and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 13 Sept. 2007. Web. 4 Nov. 2008. ‹http://classics.mit.edu/›.
1. Describe the drug and its history in the U.S. Questions you may answer are: what is it made from, how is it made, what does it look like, how is it used, when did it begin being used in the United States?
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2. Why do people want to use this drug? Are there medical uses for this drug?
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3. What are the dangers of this drug? Give at least one specific, real-life story of how someone was hurt from using.
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4. How can people get off using this drug? What is the recovery process, and how successful are the people who try to quit using this drug? Why might recovery be difficult? Use data on the success rate of quitting to create a comparison graph between your drug and other drugs.
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Create a tri-fold board using 2 file folders to display the information and pictures you gathered. Names, date and period should be on back of board with your sited sources.
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