Education for the Moderation: Harm Reduction in education approach for children about chemicals and drugs

Abstract

The article reports the development of educational materials aimed at encouraging the development of notions of self-care in health
and moderation of consumption and use of various substances, favoring an approach of self-responsibility, from the perspective
of Harm Reduction and neither frightening, for health education of children and adolescents. Handouts for Elementary School I are
presented, which, through exercises and stimulating research and analysis, address contact with personal hygiene and household
cleaning chemicals, attention to food consumption and moderation of harmful food consumption, contact and use of medications and the dangers of self-medication and ingestion of them without monitoring of health professionals, the importance of self-care and the frequency of health services, as preventive health, and the social consumption and consequences of alcohol and cigarettes, as drugs that require attention and moderation of use.