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Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco
Chapters 11 through 14
Drugs as Medicine
Sections 1 through 4
Fact or Fiction
 Prescription medications can be dangerous,
but over-the-counter medicines are safe
 The effect Aspirin has on the body depends
on why a person takes it
 The action of a drug can depend on
whether or not it is taken with meals
 Generic drugs are exactly the same as their
brand-name equivalents only cheaper
 People who drink alcohol often need higher
doses of certain drugs than other people
Answers
 False- all drug use involves risk
 False- everyone who takes aspirin receives
all of its effects
 True
 False- people who alcohol may experience
enhanced effects from certain drugs, and
alcohol consumption make larger amounts
of some drugs dangerous
 False- generic drugs contain same active
ingredients, but may contain different
inactive ingredients
Action of drugs
 Drugs may help prevent diseases
 Vaccines
 Drugs may help in the cure of a
disease
 Penicillin kills the bacteria
 Drugs may make diseases less severe
 The AIDS cocktail
Factors that change Medicines
Effects
 the form in which it is taken
 The route by which it is taken
 Whether it is taken with food or
without food
 Your dimensions
 What other drugs are taken during
the same time
Nonprescription (OTC) Medicines
 Over the Counter Drugs
 Drugs legally available without a
prescription
 Prescription Drugs
 Drugs legally available only with a
physician's order
Overusing and Misuse of OTC
 Advertising tends to create a “super
pill” persona
 Example “Headache”
 A headache is a form of the body’s
unbalance
 Individuals tend to take a pill to stop the
headache rather than focus on the
source of the pain (most likely either
tension or hunger)
Prescription Medicines
 They may be dangerous
 The dose might be adjusted to body
weight, age, drug use, or other
factors
 Require guidance to use them
correctly
 Can be abused
Drugs of Abuse
Chapter 12
Sections 1-5
Drug Abuse
 Drug Use
 The taking of a drug for its medically
intended purpose, and its appropriate
amount frequency, strength, and manner
 Drug Misuse
 The taking of a drug for its medically
intended purpose, but not in appropriate
amount, frequency, strength or manner
Drug Abuse
 Drug Abuse
 The deliberate taking of a drug for other
than a medical purpose and in a manner
that can result in damage to a person’s
health or ability to function
 Recreational Drug Use
 A term made up, to describe their drug
use, by people who claim their drug
taking produces no harmful social or
health effects
Why Abuse Drugs?
 A physical or genetic make up of a
person
 Peer pressure
 Natural curiosity
 Low self worth
Addiction
 Drug addiction
 A physical or psychological need for
higher and higher doses of a drug
 Also called Dependence
Pairing
 When a drug activity is paired with a
normal activity in everyday life
 Example
 Every time I play video games, I smoke
 After every meal I need a cigarette
 During my shower, I need a chew
Drugs and the Brain
 Drugs produce an euphoric state of
mind for the brain
 Many drugs release endorphins
 Chemicals in the brain that produce
feelings of pleasure in response to a
variety of activities
 Other activities that produce endorphins
are eating, exercising and relaxing
Physical Addiction
 A change in the body’s chemistry so
that without the presence of a
substance, normal functioning begins
to fail
 Body chemistry begins to adjust
 The addiction requires higher and higher
doses of the drug to ward off the
symptoms of withdrawal
Psychological Addiction
 A strong mental craving of the drug
 Can occur without physical symptoms
 Can last for years after the individual has
stopped taking the drug
Alcohol
Chapter 13
Short Term Effects of Drinking
 different for everyone
 factors that influence the onset of these
effects
 Body Size and Gender
 Food
 Amount and rate of intake
Factors
 Body Size and Gender
 small people feel more effects than larger
 in general alcohol moves into the
bloodstream faster in females.
 Food
 more food in stomach, the more contents
there is to absorb the alcohol
Factors
 Amount and rate of intake
 Alcohol breaks down at the same rate, no
matter how fast you drink it. Therefore, the
faster you drink, the more drunk you
become.
Alcohol and Drug Interactions
 they DON’T mix
 “Multiplier effect”
 When you add 2 or more drugs together, the
drug has stronger or different effects
Alcohol and Drug Interactions
 interactions can lead to injury,
sickness, and death
 alcohol and drug interactions
account for about ¼ of all ER
admissions.
DUI/DWI
 a person is unsafe to drive when their
BAC goes over the state minimum.
(0h .08 )
 BAC, blood alcohol concentration, the
amount of a person’s blood expressed as
a percentage.
 when stopped for an DUI/DWI a field
sobriety test will be administered
Alcohol Poisoning
 a severe and potentially fatal physical
reaction to an alcohol overdose.
 Alcohol in excess can depress your
system so much that it can effect your
breathing and the gag reflex.
Effects of Alcohol Poisoning
 mental confusion, inability to be roused,
vomiting and seizures
 slow respiration- 10 seconds between
breaths or fewer than 8 breaths a
minute
 low body temperature
 severe dehydration and vomiting
Tobacco Advocacy
Advocacy
 The act of pleading or arguing in
favor of something, such as a cause,
idea, or policy; active support
How to be an Advocate?
 Find and influence the target market
 Show the facts
 Demonstrate the facts in a timely and
interesting fashion
 Use eye popping and interesting
imagines/statements
 Make the overall imagine question the
health behavior
Anti-Tobacco Advocacy
 What is anti-tobacco advocacy?
 Complete Worksheet using one of the
three videos
Assignment
 Worth twenty points (20 points)
 Create a poster to be displayed in the
school
 This poster should have…
 Minimum of 3 Tobacco facts that are
relevant to the target audience (10 points)
 The student population of Maple Heights High
School
 Be colorful, clean, and eye popping (5
points)
 Place the poster in an area it would be the
most attention (5 points)