Types of Substances
Any substance other than food or water that changes the way your body functions.
What is a drug?
Using a substance to the point that it alters a person’s judgment and decision making, leading to dangerous behaviors.
What is substance abuse?
speaking to a therapist, counselor, or sponsor
What is talk therapy?
This takes place when friends or people your own age try to get you to do something.
What is Peer Pressure.
Family, significant others, and friends have distanced themselves from you
Loss of relationships, Loss of trust
Substances that have a high potential for abuse which may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
What are controlled substances or illegal drugs?
It can take your brain up to three weeks to recover to full function after using this substance only one time.
What is marijuana?
Finding a common ground to avoid negative interactions
What is conflict resolution?
This group will have a great influence on how you grow up. They help to raise you and influence you daily. If they are smokers, you are far more likely to try smoking.
What are your parents of family?
When you have a toxic amount of drugs in your systems that shuts down your central nervous system?
What is overdose ?
Teens abuse this OTC substance to get high. It causes weakness, numbness, nausea or vomiting, increased heart rate and blood pressure and brain damage.
What is cough/cold medicine?
Reminding yourself of the painful moments of your addiction
What is playing the tape through
These can be ruined by drug abuse because drugs take away your drive to accomplish things.
What are your goals?
When someone who is addicted to drugs stops taking that drug, they go through this, which involves pain, shakes, vomiting, and severe headaches.
What is withdrawal?
Abuse of a substance to the point where your body or brain needs the drug to function properly.
What is addiction?
Having a positive conversation with self which identifies attributes, strengths, and characteristics
Positive self talk
Sports, drama, & music are examples of these which help to keep you busy and prevent abuse.
What are hobbies?
This can happen to you if you are caught w/ drugs. If it does happen to you, it stays on your record and can make it impossible to get into College, private high schools, or even get the job that you want.
What is getting arrested?
Psychological addiction is when your brain thinks that it needs a substance to function properly. However this type of addiction is when your BODY is so used to the drug that it needs it to function properly.
What is Physical Addiction?
Associated with spirituality, spiritual connection, and connecting mind, body, and spirit
Meditation
Name 3 different things you could say to refuse someone asking you to use drugs or drinking.
What is No!, I have a game tomorrow, I don't want to, my mom is coming to get me, I have to go, etc. etc.
Though withdrawing from all drugs is extremely painful and sickening, for someone addicted to this substance withdrawal could cause death.
What is alcohol?