Relationship and Drug Workshops for Secondary Schools in Essex

The relationship between our self, people and drugs



A book that explores the relationships that we choose and how they shape our lives. The book focuses on how we interact within the environments we inhabit. In particular, how our choice of people and drugs (substance or activity that can alter state of mind) impact on our self and how they, in turn, react to us.

The book seeks to develop an understanding of how, as we develop relationships to satisfy needs, we experience a sense of freedom but can also imprison ourselves. The personalisation of drugs is examined; how drugs as well as people play an active role in relationships. There is a focus on popular aspects of everyday life with social media, gaming, gambling discussed; in addition to substances both legal and illegal that routinely feature in peoples lives. 

Through a series of shared experiences and dramas (taken from workshops delivered by the author), the book offers the reader an opportunity to reflect on relationships that are known to them. The opportunity to listen to the perspective of the “other” provides the reader with an insight into how managing the relationship affects each individual.

The book concludes with a bonus chapter that puts forward, that the instinctual response of “fight” or “flight” on occasion of threat to ones person has been compromised by “film it”. We look at the benefits and downsides of video and posting on Social media of fight or flight situations.