Info for adults

Welcome!

We are glad that you are exploring the Mike and Vicki Project. We hope that the information here will be of value to you and that the content will promote conversation. Each strand is laid out in a common fashion, with the story line completing and the question “What just happened?” being posed followed by Fast Facts. Each strand takes approximately ten minutes to complete, exclusive of the question screens.

If you have identified a particular need or interest, below we have identified the theme of each strand as well as the themes and topics explored within the strand and additional questions that could be discussed.  

Be aware that this resource depicts realistic scenarios and be cautious of the potential to trigger.

# Story Strand Ending
Title
Theme
Button Sequence		  
01-Make Vicki Jealous
——
Theme:  Jealousy
——
Button Sequence:
-Drink
-Skip the Challenge
-Stay at Party
–Make Vicki Jealous
——
This strand has Mike teasing Vicki, Vicki fighting Michelle, and then Vicki ending up in jail.		 Topics:

  • Relationships
  • Bullying
  • Feelings
  • Communication
  • Alcohol use

 

Additional Discussion Questions:

  • What was Vicki thinking?
  • What was Vicki feeling?
  • What was Mike thinking?
  • What was Mike feeling?
  • What was Michelle thinking?
  • What was Michelle feeling?
  • How was alcohol use affecting communication?
  • What type of communication styles were being used?
  • How do labels affect behaviour?
  • Are we judged on our behaviours?
  •         -If so, how?

Resources:

 

 

 

 

02-Be Honest with Vicki
———
Theme: Honesty/ Flirting
——-
Button Sequence:
-Drink
-Skip the Challenge
-Stay at Party
–Be Honest
——–
This strand ends up with Mike and Vicki at a picnic table on the beach, reconciled		 Topics:

  • Relationships
  • Communication
  • Effects of substance use on relationships

 

Additional Discussion Questions:

  • Why did Vicki say “I love you”? Why did Mike?
  • How did saying “I love you” affect the conversation.

 

Resource:

Meatloaf “Paradise by the Dashboard Lights”.

 

 

 

 

 

3.Break up with Vicki
——–
Theme: Relationship Responsibilities
———–
Button Sequence:
-Drink
-Skip the Challenge
-Stay at Party
–Break Up
———
This strand ends up with Mike and Vicki sitting on a log and agreeing to break up.		 Topics:

  • Relationships,
  • Substance use
  • Feelings

Additional Discussion Questions:

  • What is the difference between sexually intimate and sexually active?
  • How does being sexually intimate change your relationship with your partner?
  • What happens when a couple breaks up to peers, groups, etc?
  • Are there additional challenges for a same sex couple?  If so, what are they?

Resources:

 

 

4. Honour is at stake
——-
Theme: Fighting
——-
Button Sequence:
-Drink
-Drink Vodka Shots
-Finish all ten
–Fight
——–
This stand ends up with Mike fighting, falling in the fire and then Mike in hospital, Vicki visiting him.		 Topics:

  • Alcohol
  • Relationships,
  • Communication,
  • Feelings

Additional Discussion Questions:

  • What did Mike mean when he stated “I can’t trust you”?
  • Can you make someone trust you? How?
  • Can you make someone think or feel a certain way?
  • How did alcohol affect Mike’s behaviour and feelings?
  • What other choices could Mike have made?
  • Who is responsible for Mike’s behaviour? If the audience indicates that Vicki is responsible revisit the question “Can you make someone think or feel a certain way?

Resources:

 

5. Walk Home
——-
Theme: Integrity
—–
Button Sequence:
-Drink
-Drink Vodka Shots
-Stop at six
–Walk Home
——-
This strand ends with Mike and Vicki walking down a road, Mike getting sick.		 Topics:

  • Substance use
  • Responsibility

Additional Discussion Questions:

  • How do you know when you’re impaired
  • What can be done to drink a standard drink?
  • What are ways to reduce risks when drinking?
  • How do you know when to ask for help?
  • How does it feel to ask for help?
  • What are reasons you may not ask for help?

Resources:

 

 

 

 

6. Mike Drives Drunk
——-
Theme:
Risk Taking
——
Button Sequence:
-Drink
-Drink Vodka Shots
-Stop at six
-Drive Home
——-
End with-Mike drives and is stopped by police, ends up in jail.

Topics:

  • Substance Use
  • Responsibility

Additional Discussion Questions:

  • What else could have been done
  •  What might have prevented Vicki from doing another option?
  •  What would the conversation be between Mike and Vicki the next day?
  • What skills would be useful in the conversation with Vicki and with the mom?
  • How do you think Mike’s mom might have felt getting the call from the RCMP?
  • How is Mike’s family impacted by the loss of the family car?

Resources:

 

 

7. Call Mike’s Mother
—-
Theme: Truth/ Wisdom
Go with your gut———
Button Sequence:
-Drink
-Drink Vodka Shots
-Stop at six
-Call Mom
—

  • Scene ends with mom picking them up, asks Vicki to look after Mike, Vicki puts Mike to bed.
 Topics:

  • Substance use
  • Responsibility
  • Family
  • Communication
  • Relationships

Additional Discussion Questions:

  • How would Vicki feel to call Mike’s mom for a ride?
  • How might the relationship between Vicki and Mike’s mother change?
  • How would Mike’s mom feel getting a call to pick Mike up?
  • How might the relationship between Mike and Mike’s mother be impacted?
  • How would Mike feel knowing that Vicki made a decision to involve Mike’s mom.
  • How could this affect Mike and Vicki’s relationship
  • How might Mike’s ability to work be affected by his drinking the night before?
  • How long does alcohol affect the functioning of the brain?
  • How long does alcohol stay in your system and how might it affect you?

 

Resource:

 

 

 

 

8. Leave and Go Home 
——-
Theme: Self respect
—
Button Sequence:
-Take care of Vicki
-Leave
—-
Ends with Mike waking up and going to work, “Vick who?”		 Topics:

  • Substance use
  • Relationships
  • Feelings

Additional Discussion Questions:

  • Why did Mike go home?
  • Why did Vicki stay?
  • What else could Mike and Vicki have done?
  • Why didn’t Mike and Vicki explore their choices as a couple?
  • What did they need to explore their choices?
  • How did alcohol play a part in their choices?

Resource:

 

 

 

9 Mike goes to work
———
Theme: Priorities
—–
Button Sequence:
-Take care of Vicki
-Have a drink
–Don’t do E
——
Ends with Mike going home, Vicki texts apology and asks Mike to miss work and come over, Mike says no.		 Topics:

  • Relationships
  • Substance Use
  • Peer influence
  • Responsibilities

Additional Discussion Questions:

  • How might your choices impact your relationships (with parents/guardian, caregivers, siblings, boyfriend/girlfriend, employer)?
  • What’s it going to be like on Monday for Mike and Vicki?
  • How might Mike feel by going home and leaving the party?
  • What other harms may occur when drinking?
  • How do possible harms occur from alcohol or substance use?

Resources:

 

 

10. Mike goes home alone (after one tab)
——————-
Theme: Family Ties
——-
Button Sequence:
-Do E
–Go Home Alone
——
Ends with Mike going home, Vicki texts break up, mom talks about work, Mike’s depressed.		 Topics:

  • Mental Health
  • Responsibility
  • Family ties
  • Relationships
  • Peer influence

Additional Discussion Questions:

  • What happens on the Monday (for Mike and Vicki, and their friends)?
  • What happens to the group, relationships?
  • How does Mike’s family values affect his decisions?
  • How will the group dynamics change because Mike and Vicki broke up?

 

Resources:

 

 

11. Go home with Vicki
—
Button Sequence:
-Do E
-Wait
–Go Home with Vicki
——-
Theme: Roles
—-
Ends with Mike and Vicki talking on a log, bribing brother, then walking home.		 Topics:

  • Family substance use
  • Responsibility
  • Family ties
  • Relationships (compromise)
  • Communication

Additional Discussion Questions:

  • How did Mike and Vicki work through their differences?
  • How are Mike and Vicki’s home lives different and what are the differences?  How do the differences impact them?

Resources:

 

 

12. Smoke pot
——
Theme:
listening to uneducated advice
——–
Button Sequence:
-Do E
-Take another Tab
–Smoke Pot
—–
Ends with Mike running off, and in the hospital, mom talks to doctor.		 Topics:

  • Mental Health
  • Substance use

Additional Discussion Questions:

  • Why was Mike feeling sketchy?
  • How aware are parents of their teens alcohol and drug use?
  • What do you parents need to know or what would be helpful for them to know?
  • How long might Mike and Vicki experience the effects from E?
  • When Mike wakes up, what might he think of his choice to use E?

 

Resources:

 

 

 

 

13.Go to Hospital
(after taking another tab)
———
Theme:
Pleasing others
—
Button Sequence:
-Do E
-Take another Tab
–Go to Hospital
—-
Ends with Mike in hospital discussing E with Vicki, mom overhears. Mom & Mike discuss drugs.		 Topics:

  • Substance use

Additional Discussion Questions:

  • What is Mike ‘giving up’ in his attempt to please Vicki and his mom?
  • Why did Mike choose to go to the hospital?
  • Could Mike have known how he was going to react to the E?
  • How can Vicki be confident that his won’t happen again?
  • How does Mike and Vicki’s use of drugs differ?

 Resource:

 

 

 

14. Chill
——
Theme: Wants & Shoulds ??
—-
Button Sequence:
-Do E
-Take another Tab
–Cool off in Water
—–
Mike drowns, Vicki is questioned by rcmp		 Topics:

  • Substance use

Additional Discussion Questions:

  • What happens when a youth dies at a party? (Be cautious of the potential to trigger).
  • How would using E contribute to death?
  • What are signs of a drug overdose?
  • What is the impact of Mike’s death on people at the party and other’s?
  • What do the people need?

 

Resources:

Guest Speaker:  RCMP officer

 

 

 

 

15. Go Home
—-
Theme: taking care of your own needs
—Button Sequence:
-Do E
-Take another Tab
–Go home.
—-
Mike chooses to take care of himself, Vicki goes home with him, he feels rough in the morning but is going to work.		 Topics:

  • Substance use

Additional Discussion Questions:

  • How do you know when you need help?
  • How can a friend/family member help?
  • How does substance use affect work, school, family, friends, and self?

Resource:

What Is Blood Alcohol Concentration?

Your blood alcohol concentration, or BAC, is the amount of alcohol in your blood. For example, if a person’s BAC is .05%, that means they have 50 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millitres of blood. Each drink you have within a certain timeframe increases your BAC.

Alcohol moves through your bloodstream to your whole body. Your liver breaks down about 90% of the alcohol, with the remainder passing out of your body unchanged. This process takes about two hours for one standard drink. If you keep drinking during this time, the alcohol stays in your system until your liver is able to process it. So your BAC can rise quickly as you continue to drink. Your BAC will start to drop once you stop drinking, but it takes longer to fall than it does to rise.

Understanding the Effects of Alcohol On Driving

Alcohol decreases a person’s ability to drive a motor vehicle safely. The more you drink, the greater the effect. The amount of alcohol required to become impaired differs according to how fast you drink, your weight, your gender, and how much food you have in your stomach. Because of these variables, the safest choice is always not to drink and drive.

Effects of drinking alcohol

Having any amount of alcohol in the blood can cause poor judgment and slowed reflexes. BAC and the effects of drinking alcohol vary from person to person and depend upon body weight, the amount of food eaten while drinking, and each person’s ability to tolerate alcohol.

Effects of drinking alcohol

Estimated blood alcohol concentration (BAC)

Observable effects

0.02

 Relaxation, slight body warmth

0.05

 Sedation, slowed reaction time

0.10

 Slurred speech, poor coordination, slowed thinking

0.20

 Trouble walking, double vision, nausea, vomiting

0.30

 May pass out, tremors, memory loss, cool body temperature

0.40

 Trouble breathing, coma, possible death

0.50 and greater

 Death

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/alcohol-abuse/blood-alcohol?page=2