Alcohol Misuse
If you are unable to attend work, school, and other responsibilities.
If you can’t remember what you did after drinking.
You need to drink to get through the morning.
What are these?
What are unhealthy relationships with alcohol
What is the main active chemical in tobacco, which affects the brain, makes people feel alert or relaxed, and is addictive?
What is nicotine
Also known as Naloxone, it blocks the brain's uptake of opioids by replacing them.
Used as a nasal spray
What is Narcan?
This refusal skill involves repeating your answer again and again until the person stops asking
Broken record technique
Parents and friends pushing you to join a sports team is an example of what?
Positive peer pressure
Name an area of the body that is negatively affected by alcohol.
What is the brain, liver, pancreas, heart, and stomach?
THC is known to affect what functions of the brain? (at least 2)
What is memory, learning, attention, decision-making, coordination, emotions, and reaction time.
Volatile substances, chemicals that produce vapors. These can be inhaled to induce mind-altering effects.
Usually found under the depressants category
What are inhalants?
What are two strategies for saying no
what is offering an alternative, humor/health deflection, broken record, straightforward and honest approach.
A “friend” calling you a loser because you don’t want to try his vape is an example of what?
Negative peer pressure
When women consume more than 4 alcoholic beverages or men consume more than 5 alcoholic beverages over about a 2-hour period of time.
What is a reason why people may use tobacco, weed, or nicotine?
Peer pressure, parents or siblings use, media portrayal, fruity/candy flavors, addiction, stress, marketing/images that are appealing to a younger audience.
Abuse of what can lead to impaired judgment, vomiting, blackouts/memory loss, unconsciousness, coma, death
What are depressants?
What are 3 coping skills that would help you stay away from DTA?
Meditating/breathing deep, physical activity, peer/community connection, taking a hike
Definition of peer pressure
The influences of one’s peer group on their decisions
Name at least one sign of alcohol poisoning
If they cannot be woken up
Slow or irregular breathing
Vomiting while passed out
Cold, clammy or blue tinted skin
Extreme confusion/making no sense
Which out of tobacco, vapes, pouches, chew, and marijuana is most prevalent with high school students in WI?
Vapes 34%
What are 3 warning signs of drug abuse
Signs and symptoms- Neglecting responsibilities at school, work, and home
Physical warning signs- Bloodshot eyes or pupils different size than normal, changes in appetite, sleep patterns, Physical appearance,
Behavioral signs- Drop in attendance at work or school, secretive suspicious behaviors, sudden changes in friends and hobbies
Psychological warnings- change in personality or attitude, mood swings, angry outbursts,
What is an avoidance strategy?
Walking away or leaving a situation where people are using DTA
One example of indirect peer pressure
Social media, ad’s, tv/movies
What percentage of motor vehicle deaths in EC county involved alcohol? (Within 5%)
47%
Is THC from marijuana legal in the state of WI?
No, both medical and recreational use is illegal.
Name 4 of the 7 drug categories on the drug wheel
What are opioids, depressants, stimulants, empathogens, hallucinogens, psychedelics, cannabinoids?
Saying “no” firmly while using confident body language and tone of voice is what refusal skill?
Confidence and assertiveness
What is direct peer pressure?
When peer’s directly ask you to partake in something you don’t want to do.