1. Rights and Responsibilities in Healthy Relationships
Module E: Lesson 2
Grade 12 Active, Healthy Lifestyles
Note to Teacher
Substance use and abuse is regarded as potentially sensitive content. All aspects of instruction are to be treated with a high degree of sensitivity.
Introduction
In this lesson students explore the stages of substance use from non-involvement to dependent involvement. Students learn about the risks and consequences of substance use and addictive behaviour. Helping students to recognize the stages or levels of involvement in substance use, and addressing the facts and feelings associated with substance use, may promote behaviour change or healthy decision making.
Specific Learning Outcome
11.SU.2 Explain the stages of involvement in substance use or abuse.
Includes: non-involvement, irregular involvement, regular involvement, harmful involvement, and dependent involvement
Key Understandings
Drug addiction is a complex issue.
The stages or levels of involvement in substance use range from non-involvement to dependent involvement.
The physical signs of drug abuse or addiction can vary, depending on the person and the drug being abused.
Essential Questions
What are the stages or levels of involvement in substance use?
How do you know when someone has a problem with substance use?
What are the signs of a dependency and an addiction? What are the similarities and differences?

2. What is a right?
Is an entitlement to perform or not to perform certain actions, either legally or morally.
With each right that a person possesses, there is a corresponding duty or responsibility.

3. What is responsibility?
Having a duty and being accountable for one’s actions.
Eg. For each driver they have a right to drive on public roads but a responsibility to follow the laws and rules of the road

4. Right and Privilege Activity
Complete the activity in your booklet and identify whether you think each item is a right or a privilege.

5. How does the right/priviledge activity apply to relationships??
What are your personal rights
What are your personal responsibilities
What are the priviledges?

6. Personal Rights within Relationships
Review the personal bill of rights within your booklet.

7. Relationship Responsibilities
Accept the other person as an individual
Respect and value each other’s rights.
Discuss all aspects of the relationship, including sexual health
Listen actively and support each other
Honour the mutually agreed upon decisions
Make and allow each other to make personal decisions
Dignify the relationship by not pressuring each other into doing things that they don’t want to do.