Alchohol
What harm can Alcohol cause?
Alcohol use can harm your body and your brain and cause you to make poor decisions.
What threat do drugs give?
Drug misuse and substance abuse are life-threatening behaviors.
The chemicals in all tabacco products harm your body?
What are some factors that influence Alcohol's Effects?
Body size, Gender, Food, Rate of Intake, Amount, and Medicine.
What are some factors that influence teens to use drugs<
Peer pressure, family members, role models, media messages, perceptions of drug behaviors, and misleading information.
Whats in tobacco products?
All tobacco products contain harmful chemicals, including carcinogens and nicotine, an addictive drug.
What are some effects of Alcohol Poisoning?
Mental confusion/ stupor, Coma, inability to be roused, vomiting, seizures, slow respiration, irregular heartbeat, hypothermia.
How can drugs affect your health?
It could affect your physical health, mental health, and social health.
Why is tobacco addictive?
Tobacco is addictive because it contains nicotine. This addictive drug causes physiological/ psychological dependence.
What are some factors that influence Alchohol use?
Peer pressure, family, and friends.
What are the the consequences for society?
Lost work hours due to drug-related illnesses, jail time, accidents, and death.
Health care cost and legal fees.
Law enforcement cost and insurance cost due to drug related damages, injuries, and deaths
What are some short-term effects?
Brain chemistry changes, respiration and heart rate increases, taste buds are dulled and appetite is reduced, bad breath, yellowed teeth, and smelly hair, kin, and clothes
What are the benefits of living Alcohol free?
Maintaining healthy body, Establishing healthy relationship, Making healthy decisions, avoiding illegal activities, avoiding violence, and Achieving your goals
Why live drug free?
By deciding not to do drugs, you promote your own health and influence others to do the same.
What are some long term affects?
Chronic bronchitis, emphysema, lung cancer, coronary heart disease and stroke, and a weakened immune system