Grey Matters
A campaign to prevent marijuana misuse, AND a type of tissue in our brains.
What is GRAY MATTER?
When it comes to drugs and alcohol, health experts agree that this is the single most effective way to ensure you never become addicted.
What is don't ever start?
A relationship in which a person, thing, or idea is linked or associated with something else.
What is connection?
This strong PRESCRIPTION medicine is used to treat pain. it includes drugs like oxycodone and morphine (as well as illegal drugs like heroin). It is highly addictive.
What is an Opioid?
Content (text, audio, images, video) or devices that allow people to share information, communicate, and collaborate over internet or computer networks.
What is Digital media?
Research has shown that people who use marijuana heavily during their teen years can permanently lose this many points from their IQ score
What is 6 to 8 points?
9 out of 10 people who started drinking, smoking or using drugs before the age of 21 struggle with this.
What is a addiction?
Social - Building relationships with others
Physical - shared experiences or physical proximity (group work, sitting with friends)
Emotional - Feeling understood and supported
Digital - Social media, texting, online interaction.
What are Ways We Connect With Others?
Instead of using strong drugs, you can try these other methods that might be safer and work just as well to help you feel better.
What are alternatives to opioids?
Behaviors we do often or regularly with digital media and devices
What are Digital habits?
Just like cigarettes, smoking marijuana can cause damage to this vital organ system, leading to chronic cough and cancer.
What are the lungs?
A chemical that causes you to experience pleasure and is released in the brain when you do something good.
What is dopamine?
Research tells us that feeling connected improves this health aspect, which helps us live a longer and better life and strengthens our immune system.
What is Physical Health?
It is important to act quickly because these powerful drugs can make a person stop breathing, you must act immediately to prevent brain damage or death.
What is an opioid overdose?
To engage in activities that don't involve devices, apps, or the internet involves this.
What is “Unplugging?”
Using marijuana as a teen can negatively affect these three mental 'tools' needed for learning and solving problems.
What are memory, concentration, and attention?
A strategy that can help you say no to something you don’t want to do.
What are refusal skills?
Feeling connected helps protect us from anxiety, depression, suicide ideation, and even addiction, which is key to this part of our health.
What is Mental Health?
To keep others from getting hurt by mistake, you should always use these two practices: keeping pills locked up and throwing away old medicine the right way.
What are safe storage and proper disposal?
When something happens on digital media that makes them feel uncomfortable, worried, sad, or anxious it is called this.
What is a “Red flag?”
Statistically, students who use marijuana are significantly less likely to achieve these two major academic milestones compared to their peers who don't use it.
What are finishing high school and earning a college degree?
According to the 2025 SHARP Survey, this overwhelming percentage of Wasatch County middle school students choose NOT to use drugs and alcohol.
What is 98 percent?
Having a study buddy, working on group projects, or just having friends to talk to between classes can help make school feel more manageable and improve this.
What is Academic Success?
Your Choice Your Future uses money from these legal agreements with drug companies to help fix the harm caused by the opioid crisis.
What are opioid settlement resources/funds?
Using media in a way that feels healthy and in balance with other life activities (family, friends, school, hobbies, etc.)
What is Media balance?