When planning and making drug education presentations to student athletes, crew chiefs, athletic trainers and team physicians should ensure that information presented is current, accurate, clearly interpreted, and unbiased. Presentations should examine the issues of drug use as they relate to student athletes and provide opportunities for group interaction in a positive, supportive environment. Student athletes should be encouraged to examine their role as positive models. Student athletes should be engaged in activities that challenge them to examine the issues of drugs in sport, to develop of life skills involved in healthy decision-making.

A 45-minute to 1-hour presentation should include an introduction, a central theme that includes at least three main ideas, and relevant conclusions that challenge student athletes to become engaged in mutually supportive activites.

Introduction
The introduction should stimulate interest and curiosity among student athletes. The speaker should endeavor to build a good relationship between him or herself and the audience; the speaker could include some background information about him or herself in addition to one or two important pieces of information about the presentation topic.

The main idea
The main idea is the most important part of the presentation. The purpose of this section is to develop and support the main points of the presentation, with supporting material, charts, graphs and illustrations.

When presenting the main idea, consider what the purpose of the presentation is, prepare three main points to support this theme, and finally rank main points in the order that they can be best explained.

The motivating conclusion
At the end of the presentation be sure to summarize the purpose and main points. Challenge and encourage every student athlete to take specific actions with a specific goal and objectives.