Skills
This skill is a mental technique to observe and experience an urge without engaging in it.
Urge Surfing
While every case is different, the National Institute for Drug Abuse has cited that this percentage range of individuals experience relapse after treatment. However, with long-term care and proper follow-up treatment, the percentage of relapse can diminish.
This skill involves the practicing the "3 D's". What are they? Extra 200 points if you describe how you would use this skill to resist the urge to use substances or engage in self injurious (ie: cutting) or self destructive behaviours (fighting, breaking property).
What is the Delay Distract and Decide Skill. The intensity of craving will not last longer than 30 minutes. In fact, usually it is 10-15 minutes. Decide skill involved recalling the pros of not using and the cons of using.
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among 16 to 25 year olds, and alcohol and/or drugs are a factor in
A) 55% of those crashes B) 75% of those crashes C) 20% of those crashes D) 18% of those crashes
What is 55%
True or False: Marijuana can not cause loss of coordination and distortions in the sense of time, vision and hearing, sleepiness, reddening of the eyes, increased appetite and relaxed muscles. It can not increase heart rate. In the first hour of smoking marijuana, there is no risk of a heart attack could increasing five fold. School performance is not reduced through impaired memory and lessened ability to solve problems.
This skill involves figuring out which situations are likely to cause you trouble, and then not only planning ahead how to cope with expected difficulties, but also imagining being in the situation and coping effectively. 300 extra points if you can describe how you would cope ahead with a risky situation.
Cope Ahead Skill
True or False: 16- to 19-year-old fatally injured drivers, especially females, continue to be over-represented when compared with older drivers.
False. https://tirf.ca/news/canadian-teenagers-especially-males-still-represented-among-driver-fatalities/
This substance was legalized and regulated in 2018, and has remained the most used drug in Canada.
What is Marijuana
A skill of radical acceptance, commitment, and action, all directed toward never engaging in substance use again. The action component refers to actively cutting off, and removing from your life, all connections to potential triggers for substance use. 400 extra points if can discuss the importance of burning bridges with people and things.
Burning Bridges
Long‑term use can cause psychotic symptoms. It can also damage the lungs and the heart, worsen the symptoms of bronchitis and cause coughing and wheezing. It may reduce the body’s ability to fight lung infections and illness.
What is marijuana
True or False: Teen drug addiction is a brain disorder.
What is True? Some teens can become addicted to a drug the first time they use it, while others may be able to use the drug several times before becoming addicted. There is no way to determine how long it will take for a teen to become addicted to a drug, but the younger a teen is when he or she first uses drugs, the more likely he or she is to become addicted to drugs. http://troubledteen101.com/articles27.html
244,000 Canadians representing 1% of Canadians aged 15 years and older reported problematic use of this drug, an increase from 2017 (19% or 103,000). This substance can be obtained from a doctor such as Ritalin, Concerta, Adderall, Dexedrine or others, and are prescribed by doctors to help people who have attention or concentration problems
This skill involves strategies or methods that an individual can use to say ''no'' to peer pressure. It requires setting healthy boundaries and being assertive. You can earn 500 extra points for demonstrating this skill.
Refusal Skills
True or False: Alcohol is a depressant
What is True
Of pedestrians aged 16 and older who were killed in traffic accidents, this fraction were intoxicated.
A) 1/4; B) 1/2; C) 1/3; D) 1/8