Coping Skills
What is a coping skill?
An effective way to deal with uncomfortable emotions or situations
This legal drug slows brain functions and is often consumed at parties.
What is alcohol?
This life-saving medication reverses opioid overdoses.
What is Narcan (Naloxone)?
Myth or Fact: You can’t get addicted to something that’s prescribed.
What is a myth?
This active ingredient in marijuana targets the frontal lobe of the brain
What is THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol)
Name 3 healthy coping skills
Read a Book, Writing/Drawing/Painting, Listening to Music, Spending Time with Friends/Family, Go for a Walk, Deep Breathing, Meditation, talking to someone you trust, Journaling
This chemical comes from the cannabis plant and may impair memory and coordination.
What is THC?
Narcan can be administered through this part of the body.
What is the nose (nostrils)?
Myth or Fact: Prescription drugs are safer to misuse than "street" drugs because they are given by a doctor
What is a Myth?
When taken without a prescription or not as directed, prescription drugs can be just as dangerous, addictive, and even fatal as illegal drugs
Youth who use Marijuana once or twice a month reported higher rates of what mental health symptoms?
What are anxiety, depression, and impulse behaviors?
Name 3 unhealthy coping skill
Fighting, avoiding help, yelling at others, harming others or yourself, using alcohol or drugs
This addictive substance is found in Vapes and cigarettes
What is Nicotine?
Signs of opioid overdose include what?
Slow/ no breathing, snore/gurgle sounds, choking, unconsciousness, blue or pale skin/lips, or limp body?
Myth or Fact: Mixing alcohol with other drugs makes them more dangerous.
What is a fact?
Marijuana use has harmful effects on the brains of teens and youth because the brain is still developing until what age?
What is 25 years old?
Expressing good things from your day is a coping strategy known as ________
Gratitude
These prescription painkillers are responsible for thousands of overdose deaths.
What are Opioids?
You see someone unconscious and think they are overdosing, what do you do?
What is "call 911 or emergency services, administer Narcan, put them in a recovery position, watch and keep an eye on them"?
Myth or Fact: Cannabis is always safe because it’s a natural plant.
What is a myth? (Think Tobacco and Poppy (Opioid) plants)
Youth who begin using marijuana before age 18 are how many times more likely to develop cannabis use disorder than adults?
What is 4-7 times more likely?
True or False: Coping skills help you focus on important things in your life
True
When we cope with problems and our emotions, it helps us think more clearly and tackle them better
This term describes using a drug in a way not prescribed, including someone else's medications.
What is drug misuse?
This law protects people who help during an overdose situation from legal trouble.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
Myth or Fact: Narcan works on alcohol or other non-opioid substances
What is Myth?
True or False? Marijuana (THC) is addictive?
What is True?