Gambling
This many states do NOT have legalized gambling.
What is 2. (Utah & Hawaii)
This percentage of teens do NOT misuse a prescription medication.
What is 85%? (That's 6 out of 7)
This many people are arrested for marijuana related crimes in the United States each year.
What is 700,000?
This percentage of teens report seeing bullying in their schools.
What is 70.6%?
This is the legal drinking age in the United States.
What is 21?
The most popular form of gambling.
What is the Lottery?
This is the #1 reason teens report for misusing prescription drugs.
What is "To help me relax"?
This percentage of high school students report regularly smoking marijuana in the United States.
What is 23%?
The percentage of teens who report being bullies.
What is 30%?
The percentage of smokers who start before the age of 26.
What is 98%
True or False: Ohioans with alcohol or other drug addiction are more likely to have a gambling problem.
True!!
Name 3 POSITIVE things you can do instead of misusing prescription medications.
Study with Friends
Work Out
Read
Play basketball
Go Fishing..
(any of these would work!)
Of the 2.4 million people who began using marijuana in the last year, this percentage of them were adolescents (Ages 12-20).
What is 78%?
This may students stay home from school on any given day because they are afraid of being bullied.
What is 160,000?
Tobacco kills approximately this many people every year.
What is 7 million? (This is more than AIDS, car accidents, illicit drugs, suicide, and homicide combined!)
Problem gambling rates for teens & young adults are shown to be ______ times higher than that of adults.
What is 2-3? (In fact, 4% of the adult population may have a gambling problem!)
Identify 2 consequences that could happen if someone misused prescription medications.
Conflict with family & friends
Decline in grades
Addiction
Illness or Death
Loss of interest in activities
Because of marijuana's effects on the brain, users can experience this condition.
What is short-term memory loss?
(among others!!)
In 2016, this percentage of students ages of 13 - 18 reported being bullied.
What is 35%?
Teens who start drinking before the age of 15 are ____ times more likely to develop dependence or substance abuse disorder later in life.
What is 5 times?
This percentage of compulsive gamblers are women.
What is 25%?
Name 1 example of prescription drug misuse
Taking more than is prescribed.
Taking for a different reason than prescribed
Sharing or taking someone else's Prescription.
Marijuana users have lost an average of this many IQ points.
What is 8?
People who have been bullied are only ______ as likely to keep a long-term job, even after the bullying as stopped.
What is half as likely?
This is the number of teens (ages 12-20) that die each year as a result of alcohol consumption.
What is 4,400? (Approx. 1600 are from moter vehicle accidents.)