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Objectives. Access information and services for treatment of addictive behaviors. (HE900.20.04) Identify resources to be used when a friend or family member has a drug problem. (HE.900.20.04a)

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  1. Objectives • Access information and services for treatment of addictive behaviors. (HE900.20.04) • Identify resources to be used when a friend or family member has a drug problem. (HE.900.20.04a) • Apply strategies and skills needed to intervene with dependent and addictive behaviors. (HE.900.20.04b)

  2. Warm-up • Have you ever acted before thinking? Did you ever wonder why? • 2. What are some possible consequences of acting on the “spur of the moment”?

  3. Alcohol, Tobacco, and other drugs is the area of health that focuses on kinds of drugs and their safe use; understanding the risk factors and protective factors associated with drug misuse and abuse; preventing the misuse and/or abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and controlled help for personal or family drug misuse or abuse; being aware of school and community intervention and treatment resources; choosing to be safe and drug-free; and using resistance skill when pressured to use drugs.

  4. Make a group of four and answer the following questions. You will need one piece of paper per group. 1. How widespread do you feel the drug problem is in your country? What about your state, city, neighborhood, and school? 2. How do you think today’s drug use compares to that of 10 years ago? 20 years ago? 3. Why do you feel drug use is so prevalent? 4. What are possible reasons why people begin using drugs? Compare answers from warm-up, and make a group list, identifying the top three reasons. 5. Once someone is addicted to drugs, what controls the addiction? The user, or the drug itself?

  5. Our Drug Culture • Drugs have been part of our culture since the middle of the last century. Popularized in the 1960s by music and mass media, they invade all aspects of society. • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs. In the United States, results from a 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health showed that 19.9 million Americans (or 8% of the population aged 12 or older) used illegal drugs in the month prior to the survey. • You probably know someone who has been affected by drugs, directly or indirectly.

  6. Terminology • Use your textbook pages 218 to define the following terms: • Drug • Medicine • Side effect • Prescription • Over-the-counter medicine

  7. Terminology • Drug Misuse- the incorrect use of a prescription or OTC drug

  8. Addiction • The repeated and continual connection with an activity or an object that results in unhealthful effects on the person. • Using despite adverse consequences. • A compulsive physiological need or dependance on a substance or a behavior Drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease, characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, and by neurochemical and molecular changes in the brain

  9. As a group, discuss the following and be prepared to share: • What do you think is the best age to talk about drugs? • What are some reasons you think kids try drugs? • What are some of the health risks from using drugs?

  10. Read the Article entitled, “Out of It” and answer the corresponding questions

  11. Why do people take drugs? • People take drugs because they want to change something about their lives. • Other reasons: • To fit in • To escape • To relax • To seem grown up • To rebel • To experiment

  12. How do drugs work? • Drugs are essentially poisons. The amount taken determines the effect. • Drugs block off all sensations, the desirable ones with the unwanted. So, while providing short-term help in the relief of pain, they also wipe out ability and alertness and muddy one’s thinking.

  13. Ways that drugs enter the body • By mouth (orally) • By injection • By inhalation (snorting) • By smoking • By absorption • By implantation

  14. The Cycle of Addiction • (1.) A young person is feeling pain and discomfort due to family or school problems. • (2.) Looking for ways to feel better, the person starts to take drugs. • (3.) At first the drugs seem to work because they dull the pain. So the person keeps taking the drug. • (4.) From this point, it may not take long for the person to become addicted because he or she has developed a physical dependence to the substance. Now the person can think only about getting more of the drug. • (5.) At this stage, a serious downward spiral begins. The person will sacrifice family, friends, school, or work for drugs. Changed both physically and mentally, the person is now an addict.

  15. Tolerance Users need more and more of the drug to get the same effect.

  16. Terminology • Use your textbook pages 230 to define the following terms: • Physical dependence • Psychological dependence • Withdrawal • Then using your textbook page 233 and describe the stages of drug addiction

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