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Substance Abuse or Mental Health?
A
Personal and Societal Impacts
B
100
Outside influences that can affect decision making, actions or thoughts (e.g., family members, media, school)
External Factors
100
You see your favorite athlete using steroids..... should you follow their footsteps, why?
No, because steroids can cause acne and breast development in males, to others that are life threatening, such as heart attacks or liver cancer. Majority are reversible but the minority are not such as voice deepening of females. Use of steroids is also a form of cheating, and is illegal unless prescribed. The person using it empowers himself with a substance to help him accomplish something or win.
100
Smoking is bad for your health, yet people keep on doing it, even though they know the risks of smoking, provide a few of the personal impacts?
They get pressured by their peers usually or see their parents and think it's cool to do it, but they don’t realize that it's hurting their body more than they think. Smoking can cause cerebrovascular disease, heart attacks, coronary heart disease, stroke, peripheral disease, damaged liver and many more fatal things.
100
Their our many ways that you can keep your body healthy, what are some things related to health that we can make good choices to help us live a healthy life?
Positive Choices About Keeping Your Body Healthy: Never get into drugs or being addicted to a substance, if anyone is forcing you to do something make a good choice and neglect it and get someone to help you. If you see a problem coming just stand up and walk away.
200
Being enslaved to a habit, activity or substance to the extent that it is affecting daily life (e.g., a physical need to smoke every day)
Addiction
200
You invite your peers over to your house for a party while your parents are away, they are forcing you to try drugs, what can you do?
The best way is to decline it and call the police or your parents for immediate help or otherwise ask someone for guidance if it is repetitive.
200
People that smoke know that by smoking they are hurting the people around them and many more, what are some of the societal impacts of smoking?
The cigarettes that people smoke, are usually just smoked and then thrown on the ground, which then can be hazardous for animals and many more. Smoking causes people that are in need for treatment to have to wait because people our choosing to smoke when they are healthy, making them required of health care when they could have made a better choice.
200
Your friend comes over to your locker in school..... and hands you a packet of drugs and forces you to take it. What kind of people in your school can you go to for help with that problem?
A trusted teacher, the councilor, a trusted friend, a trusted adult in the school, or the principal.
300
An emotional and physical response to change, danger or threat. This affects the mental health of everyone. Some people manage it better than others.
Stress
300
What are some people in the community you can go to for help with your addiction to a substance, provide at least 3 examples?
A trusted teacher that you feel sharing with, the councilor, a trusted guardian, an older sibling, or a friend.
300
Technology Dependence has become widespread because of the new technology being introduced, so kids just stare at their electronics all day, what are some personal impacts of technology dependence?
Technology Dependence Personal Impacts: Technology disrupts the child's learning, negative impacts on behavior, dishonesty increases, negative affects abound the workplace, lack of concentration, and an increase in obesity and diabetes.
300
You see your friend being addicted to drugs...... what can you do to help him with his problem? Who can he talk to, to help him?
You can encourage him to stop, alert his parents about what he is doing, provide guidance to stop, or tell him to talk to someone that can help him with the problem
400
This means to be conscious or aware of something, to purposefully pay attention and reflect.
Mindful
400
Ads are used for advertising a product, but how is the picture itself relating to it?
The picture in majority of cases is to grab the attention of a vast amount of people in that group age, to buy that product, but majority of the time it is to persuade the buyer, having barely anything to do with the product.
400
Smoking Cannabis is very deadly for your health and for others around you; destroys the brain cells in your brain, yet people keep on using it, what are some of the personal impacts of Smoking Cannabis?
Smoking Cannabis Personal Impacts: Known to decrease motivation, which can affect ones school or work performance, use of cannabis has been connected to increased absences and decreased work performance, impaired body movement, impaired memory and changes in mood.
400
Laxatives
What substance can help cure constipation; looseness of the bowels?
500
When someone is using substances and it is causing problems for them and/or people around them.
Problematic Substance Use
500
Why do kids under the age of 18 drink, even though they know it's illegal and very deadly for their age group
They get pressured by their peers usually or see their parents and think it's cool to do it, but they don’t realize that it's hurting their body more than they think.
500
Chewing Tobacco is where the user puts the tobacco in between the cheek and the gum and keep it for hours to get the result, what are some societal impacts of Chewing Tobacco?
Chewing Tobacco Societal Impacts: Chewing Tobacco companies use at least 300 million dollars a year for advertising and promotion, which can instead be put forward for charity or people in need. Treatment of Chewing Tobacco is fatal and people that are in need of treatment that haven't been doing such stuff don't get the treatment the quickest that they desire.
500
The correct answer is "A" according to the survey in 2013.
Underage drinking is very fatal for kids under the age of 21 though they still do it, what percent of 15-years-old have at least had one drink in their life,in 2013? a) 35.1% b) 28.2% c) 19.5% d) 24%