Category 1
True or False: Having a bio parent with alcoholism indicates a person likely has an increased risk for alcoholism or addiction.
True: Research finds risk for alcoholism can be inherited from our biological parents.
What is impairment?
Any change in our mental or physical functioning that increases risk for problems.
What health problem did we use as an example in the beginning?
Heart Disease
What did we identify in our first activity in Prime for Life?
Our values
True or False: Using drugs to get high is high risk, just as drinking to get drunk or buzzed is high risk.
True: Impairment from any substance is high risk.
True or False: People who have a biological parent or grandparent with alcoholism are 40 times more likely to develop alcoholism.
False: They are 4 times more likely to develop alcoholism.
What is the trigger point?
Who sets our low risk guideline?
Ourselves
If a person is under the age of 21 what is the low risk guideline and why.
0 because it is illegal and could cause legal issues.
True or false: Some people will need to reduce the low risk guidelines in order to prevent problems.
True: Some have biological risk factors or alcohol related cancers or individual differences.
True or False: People who are impulsive, gregarious, rebellious, and high in sensation seeking have higher rates of alcoholism or addiction, and why or why not?
True. These personality traits can influence people's choices to increase their quantity and frequency of drinking and drug use.
What is the formula for lifestyle-related health problems?
Body, Brain, Biology+Choices=Outcome
Give an example of a way that groups or society at large accept or encourage heavy drinking or drug use.
Drinking games
Buying rounds; sharing drugs
Advertising
Songs and movies
Clothing
A persons initial response or tolerance is largely due to which:
A Strong will power
B How well the person can handle alcohol or drugs
C Heredity
C Heredity
True or False: It is low risk for people to be impaired as long as they do not do it very often.
False: This moves people closer to their trigger point and increases risk for raising tolerance and experiencing health or impairment problems.
True or False: People with high tolerance are not protected from alcohol and/or drug problems. Why or why not?
True: Even though their bodies seem to tell them that everything is fine, people with high tolerance are likely to have increased risk. High tolerance people are less sensitive to the effects and cannot accurately detect when impairment begins. They can also consume large amounts which moves them faster to their trigger point.
What causes tolerance to go up?
Drinking or using drugs to impairment.
Is the trigger point for drug addiction generally higher or lower than for alcoholism?
Lower
Give one reason why abstinence is the only low-risk choice for mood-altering drugs.
Standard dose is typically impairing
Unpredictable strength and purity (lack of standardization) of illegal drugs
Lower trigger point for most drugs.
There are some factors in the lifestyle-related formula that we cannot change, but what one factor can we control?
Choices
True or False: Mental and physical tolerance levels increase at the same right from high-risk choices.
False: They both increase as a response to impairment, but physical tolerance increases more and faster than mental tolerance.
What amount of beer, wine and/or distilled spirits contains 0.6 ounces of pure alcohol?
12 ounces of beer at 5%
5 ounces of 12% wine
1.5 ounces of 80 proof distilled spirits
What does 1, 2, 3 stand for in the low risk guidelines?
No more than 1 drink in an hour
No more than 2 drinks a day if a daily drinker
No more than 3 on any day
What are three biological risk factors for alcoholism or addiction?
Family history of alcoholism or addiction
High tolerance
Unusually high reward/pleasure response from use
True or False: High risk drinking or drug use for fun carries as much risk as high risk drinking or drug use to deal with stress or depression. Why or why not?
True: High risk choices always have increased risk for alcohol or drug related problems, regardless of the reason they make the choices.