Drug Abuse Overview
What is an illicit drug?
An illegal drug
What is a nonuser?
Someone who has never used a drug
What is the legal age to be able to drink?
21
Who can be more influencial in our lives, celebrities or friends and family?
Friends and family
What is a counter advertisement
What is the definition of a drug?
A drug is any chemical substance that has an effect or change on the mind or body (even including things like caffeine in energy drinks)
Situation- Alyssa and her friends look forward to sniffing inhalants every weekend to get high
Regular user
What is the difference between social and binge drinking?
Social Drinking - light to moderate drinking over a long period of time
Binge drinking- consuming large quantities of alcohol in a short period of time
Is drug testing currently mandatory for all school sports and professional sports? true or false
True or false If a celebrity endorsed a product, they are required to use it in their personal lives too
False. They dont have to!
True or false- All drugs are bad
False -Some medicines can be considered good drugs!
Situation- Leigh has a job at a local electronics store. in the last several months she has started to drink as soon as she gets up, during lunch, dinner, and late at night. What kind of drinker is she?
Dependent drinker
Make an argument for why the drinking age should either be raised to 23 or lowered to 18
up to discretion of the judge
What is it called if someone drinks and drives and kills someone
vehicular manslaughter
What is the strategy of fear? How do companies use it to sell a product
showing a bad situation (like a burgulary) and their product is the solution (alarm)
What are some drugs that are safe to take? List two examples
Anything found in a CVS or other drug store (as long as taking as instructed)
Anything prescribed by doctor to help you with specific illness currently experiencing (as long as taking as instructed)
List some signs of dependency on alcohol
Physical effects
mental effects
frequency of drinking
quantity of drinking
personality changes
school problems
switching friends
dropping activities
tensions at home
secrecy of activity
What are the six factors that affect Blood alcohol concentration?
How much you drink
How fast you drink
How much a person weighs
How a person feels or the mood they are in when they drink
If and how much a person has eaten
If there are other drugs already taken too
Explain why teaching about the dangers of drugs is important. give three reasons why
up to judge to decide
Give an example of an advertisement you have seen in real life and explain a strategy that the advertisement used
Up to judge
List five drugs commonly used by underage kids
Cigarettes, Alcohol, weed, inhalants, prescription drugs
Explain three types of influences that can make you more susceptible to drug dependency?
Hereditary- If a teen has a problem drinker in the family, they then are more at risk of becoming dependent as well
External- Peers and the media are a strong motivating factor in encouraging teenagers to drink and use drugs
Smaller size and Brain difference- Smaller people have less tolerance to drugs and alcohol as it takes less to affect them. When brains are not yet fully developed chemicals in alcohol and other drugs affect the teenage brain more than the adult developed brain
What is the history of underage drinking?
Drinking age was raised repeatedly due to tons of drunk driving incidents and lack of awareness/safety.
Situation- Amy is hanging out with her friend Megan. they are hanging out at Megans house. Megan has a couple of drinks and Amy is staying later than expected. it is about midnight and Amy needs to go home. Megan offers her to drive and says that the drinks have probably worn off after an hour, What should Amy do?
Stay over or call someone to pick her up
Describe five different types of advertisement strategies that are used. and explain each type
association
bandwagon
beautiful people
bribery
experts
fear
humor
warm and fuzzy
free stuff
outdoors nature
science evidence
relaxation
rebellion
low price