HLTH 252 Drugs in Society Sample Papers, Week by Week

Liberty University · BS in Public Health · Health and healthcare administration · Updated

HLTH 252 looks at alcohol, tobacco and other drugs through the lens of public health: how they act on the body, why people use them, what policies do and what prevents and treats harm. The samples below take one question per assignment: Oregon's decriminalization experiment, whether addiction is a brain disease, xylazine in the street supply, minimum alcohol pricing, youth vaping, cannabis legalization and teenagers, a fentanyl prevention presentation and school-based prevention.

CourseHLTH 252 Drugs in Society (HLTH252)
Credit hours3
ProgramBS in Public Health
Length8 Module/Weeks, online
Weeks with written work8 of 8
Samples on this site8 week sample papers
SourcesLiberty's 2026-2027 catalog and the published HLTH 252 course guide
UpdatedOctober 2026

What HLTH 252 covers

Hart and Ksir's Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior is the course text, read in chapter groups each module/week alongside recorded presentations, with four open-book tests of fifty multiple-choice questions on the readings.

Forum threads reach at least 300 words with Scripture and one outside source, and replies to two classmates reach 150 words each. Two case study analyses of two to three pages discuss an assigned article's issue using moral and biblical positions, evidence and public health data, and the final project is a 13 to 15 slide presentation on one drug with five scholarly references.

Liberty's 2026-2027 catalog describes HLTH 252 Drugs in Society this way:
An examination of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs effects upon individual, school and community.

HLTH 252 week by week, with the sample for each

WeekWritten work in the course guidePointsSample
Week 1Discussion Board Forum 1 (Course Requirements Checklist and Class Introductions also due)60Read the Week 1 sample
Week 2Discussion Board Forum 2 (Test 1 also due)60Read the Week 2 sample
Week 3Case Study Analysis 170Read the Week 3 sample
Week 4Discussion Board Forum 3 (Test 2 also due)60Read the Week 4 sample
Week 5Case Study Analysis 270Read the Week 5 sample
Week 6Discussion Board Forum 4 (Test 3 also due)60Read the Week 6 sample
Week 7Multimedia Research Project (Discussion Board Forum 5 also due)100Read the Week 7 sample
Week 8Discussion Board Forum 6 (Test 4 also due)60Read the Week 8 sample

Where HLTH 252 papers lose points

HLTH 252 work loses points when a thread offers opinion without a source, when Scripture is quoted but not connected to the public health question, when case analyses summarize the article without weighing prevalence and policy and when the final presentation describes a drug without a prevention plan.

Using a HLTH 252 sample well

Each sample names a specific drug problem, reports what the evidence shows with numbers, brings in the textbook and a biblical perspective and ends with a public health response. Use the same structure with your own assigned prompt or article, and check every statistic against its source.

HLTH 252 questions, answered

What textbook does HLTH 252 use?

Carl Hart and Charles Ksir's Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior, which covers drug policy, the nervous system, each major drug class, prevention and treatment.

How long are HLTH 252 discussion posts?

Threads need at least 300 words with Scripture and one additional source, and each of two replies to classmates needs at least 150 words.

What is the HLTH 252 multimedia research project?

A 13 to 15 slide presentation on one drug that gives general information and then focuses on preventing its misuse, supported by at least five scholarly references in APA format.

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