Mental Health
Protection
Drugs
Booze
Wild Card
100
The following are risk factors which can lead to this tragedy: Depression, hopelessness, low self-esteem, substance use (especially alcohol), suicide of a family member or a friend, history of physical or sexual abuse, family violence, unsupportive and neglectful parents, poor peer relationships or social isolation, and poor performance in school.
What is Suicide?
100
These are the four sacred medicines.
What are sage, sweetgrass, tobacco, cedar?
100
This stimulant is found in sodas, coffee and tea.
What is caffeine?
100
This organ does most of the work in ridding alcohol from the body.
What is the liver?
100
These are two factors that contribute to shaping someone’s personality.
What is Nature/Nurture or Hereditary/Environment?
200
This type of eating is characterized by periods of uncontrolled, impulsive or continuous eating or sporadic fasts or repetitive diets.
What is binge eating?
200
This term refers to an individual’s ability to make their own decisions and have control over their lives.
What is self-determination?
200
These are two of the short-term effects of marijuana use.
What are: loss of coordination; distortions in the sense of time, vision and hearing; sleepiness; reddening of the eyes; increased appetite and relaxed muscles; elevated heart rate; impaired memory and ability to solve problems?
200
This way of drinking alcoholic beverages has the main intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time.
What is Binge drinking?
200
Living in this state causes frequent and intense experiences of uncontrollability, which in turn creates feelings of helplessness and leads to feelings of depression, passivity and defeat.
What is poverty?
300
This traumatic historical institution is identified by Indigenous people as a key factor contributing to their current experiences of poor health and wellbeing.
What are Residential Schools?
300
It is healthy for Aboriginal people to incorporate two of these traditional practices their lives.
What is spirituality, relation to the land, and knowledge of identity, smudging, offering tobacco?
300
Snuff is this type of tobacco.
What is smokeless tobacco?
300
The ability to absorb alcohol continuously or in large doses without feeling the affects is called this.
What is tolerance?
300
This experience during childhood negatively impact on school performance, the ability to form and maintain close relationships and decision-making processes.
What is abuse?
400
This term refers to how experiences of trauma are often transmitted across generations, affecting the children and grandchildren of those that were initially victimized.
What is intergenerational trauma?
400
Studies show that when this increases in a community, so does health and income.
What is Education?
400
This is the psychoactive chemical in Marijuana.
What is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
400
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome will affect a child’s personality in these 3 ways.
What is Poor socialization skills; Learning difficulties including poor memory, inability to understand concepts such as time and money; poor language comprehension; poor problem-solving skills. They may also have behavioral problems such as hyperactivity, inability to concentrate, social withdrawal, stubbornness, impulsiveness, and anxiety?
400
When people use recreational drugs to cope with feelings of sadness they are said to be doing this.
What is “self-medicating?”
500
These are two of the impacts that some face as a result of their elder’s attending residential schools.
What are disruption of families and communities; the transmission of disturbed ideologies of parenting based on their own punitive experiences; a lack of warmth and intimacy towards their own children; repetition of physical and sexual abuse; loss of language, knowledge and tradition resulting in internalized racism and devaluation of Aboriginal identity?
500
Traditional healing aims to restore balance to these 4 elements of ourselves, as when they are out of balance we experience illness.
What are mind, body, spirit and emotions?
500
Drano, Brake Fluid, Lighter Fluid, Hydrochloric Acid are common ingredients found in this drug.
What is methamphetamine (Meth)?
500
Alcohol abuse is defined by three of these patterns of behaviour.
Harm to health, interpersonal relationships, or ability to work; Failure to fulfill major responsibilities at work, school, or home;drinking in dangerous situations, such as drinking while driving or operating machinery; legal problems related to alcohol, such as being arrested for drinking while driving or for physically hurting someone while drunk; and continued drinking, despite ongoing relationship problems that are caused or worsened by drinking?
500
It is said that a great deal of healing comes from ourselves because we want to be healed. These are two traditional ways we can take responsibility for our own healing.
This can include our daily ceremony of offering tobacco. It can also include other healing ceremonies under the guidance of Healers and conductors, such as the sweat lodge, the shaking tent, the sun dance, the fast and the vision quest.
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