Health Skills
The ability to access, understand, appraise, apply and advocate for health information and services in order to maintain or enhance one's own health and the health of others
What is health literacy?
The main signs of this mental illness are: sadness, discouragement, or irritability for weeks, months, or even longer
What is depression?
Term used to describe the use of illegal drugs or the use of prescription or over-the-counter drugs for purposes other than those for which they are meant to be used
What is drug abuse?
True or False: Every country has the same legal classification system for drugs
What is false?
This stage of addiction is when the person tries the drug for the first time.
What is Experimentation/First Use?
True or False: Patients with low health literacy have higher mortality rates
What is true?
This is a response to pressure or threat
What is stress?
True or False: Cocaine is an example of a synthetic drug
What is false?
The name of the category of drugs that put you to sleep, relieve anxiety and muscle spasms, and prevent seizures
What is depressants?
This stage of addiction is when the brain adjusts to the drug, so it takes more to feel the effects.
What is tolerance?
This is a health skill that is important in the prevention, detection and treatment of health problems
What is accessing information?
A sense of uneasiness, nervousness, worry, fear, or dread of what's about to happen or what might happen
What is anxiety?
This drug contains the mind-altering chemical, THC
What is marijuana?
True or False: LSD is an example of a hallucinogen
What is true?
This is the second stage of addiction.
What is continued use?
This is a health skill that is important in communicating and receiving messages effectively
What is interpersonal communication?
Stress triggers a surge of this hormone that temporarily affects the nervous system
What is adrenaline?
How many categories of drugs did we go over in class
What are 7 categories of drugs?
The name of the category of drugs that contain chemicals that relax the body and can relieve pain
What is narcotics/opioids?
Physical and mental symptoms that occur after stopping or reducing intake of a drug.
What is withdrawal?
This health skill requires you to think critically about your decisions in terms of the potential impact on your health and the health of others.
What is decision making?
The stress response is also called this term that is an automatic response that helps us deal with danger
What is the fight-or-flight response?
This drug is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine
What is fentanyl?
This category of drugs makes people more alert, increases their attention, and raises their blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing
What are stimulants?
The person refuses to admit that the drug is the cause of these problems. This is called what?
What is denial?