This can cause blackouts, memory loss, impaired judgement, and hangovers
What is alcohol?
400
Explaining something away.
What is rationalization?
400
Some examples include low commitment to school, negative peer influence, low parental involvement, community and interpersonal violence, poverty, sensation seeking, and family history of alcohol or drug use.
What are risk factors?
400
The effects of marijuana
What are impaired judgment, lack of coordination, short term memory loss, impaired decision making, and the loss of a sense of time?
500
Symptoms can include increased tolerance, withdrawal, craving for the substance, inability to cut down or stop, preoccupation with the substance, and continued use despite negative consequences.
What is substance dependence or addiction?
500
It floods the brain’s reward system when a person does drugs (making them feel pleasure and want to repeat the experience).
What is the neurotransmitter dopamine?
500
Treating or describing things as smaller or less important than they actually are.
What is "minimizing"?
500
Some examples include optimism, problem-solving skills, humor, adaptability, self-regulation, close relationship among family members.
What are protective factors?
500
The percentage of daily marijuana users that become addicted