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Abstract: 

Automobile crashes are the leading cause of death for college-age students. This issue’s Mileposts column highlights issues of distracted driving that, along with texting, are putting student drivers at risk. In addition, there is a new challenge appearing at high schools—painkiller addiction leading to heroin overdose. The Lewis Henry Morgan Institute at the State University of New York, Institute of Technology has developed a series of short ethnographic films, One Second, Everything Changes and Consequences of No Consequences, to complement stationary museum-quality exhibits on the issue of youth and other special populations and impaired driving. The below course was designed to reinforce impaired driving prevention in the context of general youth wellness education.

Keywords: addiction from a medical-anthropological perspective; legal and health consequences; dysfunctional family and social lives; Learner-Oriented Objectives; Methods of Evaluation

Affiliations:  1: Co-Editor.