Tobacco
This is the leading preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. Almost ½ a million Americans per year die from its effects.
This quadrant of OHIO has the highest opioid related drug overdose deaths. (NW, NE, SW, SE)
What is SE.
Montgomery Co., Brown Co., Butler Co., Clark Co., Fayette Co., Clinton Co., Clermont Co., Adams Co.
More teens are in treatment with a primary diagnosis of this drug dependence than for all other illicit drugs combined.
What is marijuana dependence?
Source: https://www.ncadd.org/index.php/about-addiction/drugs/marijuana
These are two of the four male college sports that use smokeless tobacco more than any other sport or non-athlete college male.
What is BASEBALL (50%), WRESTLING (39%), ICE HOCKEY (35%), and LACROSSE (32%). Other NCAA male sports (eg, football, 29%; golf, 27%; water polo, 25%; soccer, 21%; track and field, 13%; basketball, 12%) and women's softball, 9%
Students living on campus
or
Students living off campus
have higher suicidal behaviors.
What is Students living on campus?
Students living on campus are found to be more likely to engage in suicidal behaviors because of their higher drug and alcohol use than those living off campus.
http://www.nber.org/digest/aug02/w8810.html)
This term refers to someone who is in the practice of smoking regularly but not daily, doesn't consider themselves smokers, and often smoke as an accessory to drinking.
What is a social smoker.
Research indicates young adults do NOT believe there are health problems with social smokers...
This is the world's most widely used psychoactive substance.
What is caffeine?
Smoking Marijuana? or Vaping Marijuana?
gives you higher concentrations of THC in the blood. l
What is higher with vaping.
At the same level of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, vaping led to higher blood concentrations of the chemical than smoking, as well as higher levels of cognitive and psychomotor impairment and a higher incidence of adverse effects, such as vomiting, anxiety, hallucinations and feelings of paranoia, according to the report, published Friday in JAMA Network Open.
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/legal-pot/vaping-pot-more-powerful-smoking-it-study-finds-n942271
Alcohol is used in 90% of these offenses on college campuses.
What is sexual assault?
This is the goal of suicide.
What is end the pain?!? (Not death)
This device has a battery, a heating element, and a place to hold a liquid that usually contains nicotine, flavorings, and other chemicals. It heats the liquid which produces an aerosol that the user inhales into the lungs. (Also bystanders)
What are E-cigarettes.
E-cigarettes have been available in the United States only since 2007.
E-cigarette use grew an astounding 900 percent among high school students between 2011 and 2015.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/e-cigs-use-teens-vaping-2018-yir
The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) has found this drug to be more likely associated with violence than any other drug.
What is alcohol?
The earlier the age of initiation for marijuana use is the most important predictor of this.
What is addiction or need for drug treatment?
The earlier kinds start using marijuana, the more likely they are to become dependent on this or other illicit drugs later in life.
This is one negative result a campus with the reputation of a “party school” may encounter
What is:
1. declining retention rates
2.increased expenses due to vandalism
3. diminished reputation.
4.attract students who engage in high-risk behaviors
5.discourage prospective students who are looking for an academically rigorous institution.
The accuracy of The Princeton Review's rankings has also been questioned, especially with regards to the larger schools. Experts argue that the sample size of students surveyed at each college (three hundred students, on average) is not enough to provide a truthful depiction of student behavior. "It's positively unscientific," said Dr. Henry Weschler of the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Studies Program.
This is the effect the cost of beer has to Suicidal behaviors among College Students.
What is suicidal behavior among college students is lower where the price of beer is higher.
Twelve States, in a region of the U.S. is termed “Tobacco Nation,” where smoking prevalence exceeds not only the national average, but that of many of the most tobacco-dependent countries in the world. These are 5 of the 12 states included in Tobacco Nation.
Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and West Virginia.
Less diverse: with whites 75 percent of the region’s population (compared to 59 percent), African Americans 15 percent (compared to 11 percent), Hispanics 5 percent (compared to 20 percent) and 4 percent “other” (compared to 9 percent).
Tobacco Nation is also not as well-off financially.
More likely to smoke but also Youth smoke more.
Live shorter.
Poor mental and physical markers of well-being.
Taxes on tobacco products much lower.
Ohio and MI only ones with smoke free laws.
https://truthinitiative.org/news/tobacco-use-these-12-us-states-par-number-developing-countries-why
These are three of the most common illicit drugs found at Rave Parties providing a stimulant and psychedelic effect:
What is
MDMA (Ecstasy), GHB, Rohypnol, Ketamine, Methamphetamine, Mushrooms, and LSD
NIDA-supported research has shown that use of club drugs can cause serious health problems. Used in combination with alcohol, these drugs can be even more dangerous.
Young people who use marijuana weekly have double the risk of this mental illness later in life.
What is Depression and Schizophrenia. Heavy Marijuana users are more likely than non-users to be diagnosed with schizophrenia later in life. A recent study found that people who had used marijuana more than 50 times before the age of 18, had a threefold increased risk of developing schizophrenia later in life. Source: Zammit, S et al., "Self-reported cannabis use as a risk factor for schizophrenia in Swedish conscripts of 1969: historical cohort study," British Medical Journal, 325:1199-1201, 2002 Arseneault L, et al., "Cannabis use in adolescence and risk for adult psychosis: longitudinal prospective study," British Medical Journal, 325:1212-1213, 2002 Source: Patton, GC et al. "Cannabis use and mental health in young people: cohort study." British Medical Journal, 325: 1195�1198, 2002
A 2018 survey revealed _____% of college students, said they experienced stressful events in the last year that were strongly associated with mental health problems, including harming themselves and suicidal thoughts or attempts.
What is 20% (1 in 5)
In a 2018 survey, researchers found more than 67,000 students, over 20 percent said they experienced stressful events in the last year that were strongly associated with mental health problems, including harming themselves and suicidal thoughts or attempts.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/1-in-5-college-students-so-stressed-they-consider-suicide/
This is the most common response/reaction to hearing a threat of suicide.
What is say nothing? Followed by changing the subject and ridicule.
This is the average number of attempts required for successful smoking cessation.
What is seven?
The class of drugs that are not manufactured to be drugs.
What is/are inhalants?
Using Marijuana at an early age can cause these three brain changes:
What is
1. problems with memory/retaining information
2. concentration, thinking, and focus.
3. motivation.
4. It can make it hard to plan and multitask.
5. Lower IQ in regular teen users, “It’s unclear if that drop in IQ ever catches back up if you stop using.”
6. It can cause addiction. 40% of people who use pot as kids develop a drug-abuse problem. That rate is four times higher than is seen in adult users.
“Your brain doesn’t stop developing when you’re 18. It matures into your late 20s. Some of those still-maturing parts of the brain are the regions we know are more sensitive to marijuana exposure.”
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/legalizing-pot-may-confuse-teens-thinking-its-safe
This is the number of ounces of Beer, Wine, and mixed drink that constitutes one drink.
What is One 12 oz. beer One 5 oz. wine One 1.5 oz. shot of hard liquor
This is the term social scientists currently use to replace the previously described “Successful Suicide.”
What is “Completed Suicide!”