Drug Use Prevention

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Drug Use Prevention

• Southern Elementary School
• January 25, 2006
• 5th Grade Class

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What are we going to learn

• Dangers of Drugs
• How do Drugs effect you?
• What we do to Prevent Drug Use?
• What can happened as a result of Drug Use?

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What we are going to talk about

• Tobacco
• Alcohol
• Marijuana
• Other Drugs

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What are Drugs?

• What is a DRUG?
• A Drug is (Any substance other than food that can
  affect the way your mind and body work)
• Some drugs are illegal or restricted, others
  required a Doctor to prescribe them

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What does Abuse mean?

• What is the meaning of the word
• ABUSE?
• The wrong use of something, such as misuse of
  drugs. Some drugs are illegal, not because they
  are drugs but because they are harmful to
  everyone

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WHY IS DRUG USE GROWING?

• Drugs are more available today
• There is more money in our affluent society
• Parents have less time for children
• The increasing number of educated and influential
  individuals who insist that drugs like marijuana
  and cocaine are less of a problem than alcohol or
  tobacco (Woody Harrelson)
• Many take the position that drug abuse is a
  victimless crime

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The Truth About Tobacco

• Slang -- Cigarettes Smokes, Cigs, Butts.
• Smokeless Tobacco Chew, Dip, Spit Tobacco,
  Snuff

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The Truth About Tobacco

• Tobacco damages your health. Smoking is the most
  common cause of lung cancer. Smoking is also a
  leading cause of cancer of the mouth, throat,
  bladder, pancreas, and kidney.
• Smokeless tobacco can cause mouth cancer, tooth
  loss, and other health problems.

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The Truth About Tobacco

• Tobacco affects your body's development. Smoking
  is particularly harmful for teens because your
  body is still growing and changing. The 200 known
  poisons in cigarette smoke affect your normal
  development and can cause life-threatening
  diseases, such as chronic bronchitis, heart
  disease, and stroke.

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The Truth About Tobacco

• Tobacco is addictive. Cigarettes contain
• nicotine-a powerfully addictive substance.
• Three-quarters of young people who use tobacco
  daily continue to do so because they find it hard
  to quit.

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The Truth About Tobacco

• Tobacco can kill you. Smoking is the leading
  preventable cause of death in this country. More
  than 400,000 Americans die from tobacco-related
  causes each year, and most of them began using
  tobacco before the age of 18.
• Each cigarette takes 11 minutes off your life

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The Truth About Tobacco

• Keep your edge. The poisons in cigarettes can
  affect your appearance. Smoking can dry your skin
  out and cause wrinkles. Some research even
  relates smoking to premature gray hair and hair
  loss.

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Tobacco Can

• It can be hard to play sports if you use
• tobacco. Smoking causes shortness of breath and
  dizziness, and chewing tobacco causes
  dehydration.
• Think of others. Smoking puts the health of your
  friends and family at risk. Approximately 3,000
  nonsmokers die of lung cancer each year from
  breathing other peoples' smoke.

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Tobacco

• Get the facts. Each day more than 3,000 people
  under age 18 become regular smokers. That's more
  than 1 million teens per year. Roughly one-third
  of them will eventually die from a
  tobacco-related disease.

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Lesson 3 PSA Example
Tobacco Companies are Looking for 1,000
Replacement Customers Each Day.
Guess who they have in mind to fill those
positions?
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Final Word on Tobacco

• Look around you. Even though a lot of teens use
  tobacco, most don't. According to a 2004 study,
  less than 10 percent of teens are regular
  smokers.
• In fact, 64 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds have
  never even tried a cigarette.

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Alcohol
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What is Alcohol?
A chemical called ethanol that is made from
fruits and grains. Did you know that alcohol is
addictive and causes confusion and mood swings?
Did you know that over time alcohol does these
things to your body? Permanent liver, heart,
and brain damage? Slows the brain and changes
its chemistry? Liver cancer? High blood
pressure? Alcoholism?
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Alcohol in several forms
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Alcohol What it does

• Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant.
  It affects virtually every organ in the body and
  chronic use can lead to numerous preventable
  diseases, including alcoholism.
• According to the 2004 Monitoring the Future
  survey, alcohol remains the number one substance
  used by 8th, 10th and 12th graders.
• Over 50 percent of 12th graders report drinking
  alcohol
• within the past month.

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All the Same

• One glass of wine
• One beer
• One shot (1oz) whiskey
• All contain the same amount of alcohol

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Advertising

• Ads appeal to younger generation
• Associate friends, fame, and riches with their use

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Fact about Commercials

• It has been widely reported "fact" is that by the
  age of 18, the typical young person will have
  seen 100,000 beer commercials. However, to see
  that many such commercials, it appears that a
  person would have to view television for about
  161,290 hours or 18.4 years. Thus, a person
  would have to begin watching TV 24 hours a day,
  each and every day, from birth until after age
  18.

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Marijuana
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Marijuana

• A plant called cannabis that affects the nervous
  system and has been used to make rope, cloth, and
  paint
• Did you know that marijuana causes your heart to
  beat more quickly, your reaction time to become
  slower, your throat, mouth, and lips to get dry,
  your eyes to get bloodshot, and your brain to
  lose its sense of time? 
• Did you know that over time, marijuana does
  these things to your body?
• Heart and lung damage
• Lung cancer
• Memory loss
• Lower ability to fight off colds and flu

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What does it look like?
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Inhalants
Chemicals that give off fumes that act on the
brain  Did you know that inhalants cause
dizziness, bad headaches, slurred speech, bloody
noses, upset stomach, and urinate and defecate
without control.  Did you know that over time,
inhalants do these things to your
body? Permanent brain, lung, and kidney damage
Weak muscles Blue skin Death
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Other Drugs

• Coke (Cocaine)
• Methamphetamine
• Heroin
• PCP/LSD
• Oxycotin/Prescription Drugs

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Over the counter drugs
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How do Drugs effect you?

• Tobacco
• Alcohol
• Marijuana
• Inhalants
• Other Drugs
• Over the Counter Medicines

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ITS ALL IN YOUR BRAINDecision-Making Central
Frontal Lobe Personality Mood/Emotions Problem
solving Language
Temporal Lobe Hearing Memory
Cerebellum Coordination Balance
Occipital Lobe Vision
Brain Stem Breathing Heart rate Reflexes and
balance
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Lesson 2 Brain Functions
Functions of the Brain Worksheet
Front of Brain
 
Back of Brain
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Lesson 2 Brain Slides
Bright Colors high brain activity Dark Colors
low brain activity
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Lesson 2 Brain Slides
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Lesson 2 Brain Slides
NON USER BRAIN
COCAINE USER BRAIN
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What using Inhalants Does To The Brain

• A. BRAIN The chemicals abused by inhalant users
  affect different parts of the brain, producing a
  variety of sensory and psychological disorders.
  Many inhalants are thought to dissolve the
  protective myelin sheath that surrounds neurons -
  brain cells - resulting in cell death (see brain
  diagram).
• B. CEREBRAL CORTEX Cellular death here causes
  permanent personality changes, memory impairment,
  hallucinations and learning disabilities.
• C. CEREBELLUM This is the center that controls
  balance and coordination. Inhalant-related damage
  results in loss of coordination and slurred
  speech. Chronic abusers experience tremors and
  uncontrollable shaking.
• D. OPHTHALMIC NERVE Toluene may this nerve
  causing sight disorders affect.

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Damage to the Body

• A. BLOOD Some substances like nitrites and
  methylene chloride (paint thinner) chemically
  block the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood.
• B. LUNGS Repeated use of spray paint as an
  inhalant can cause lung damage.
• C. HEART Abuse of inhalants can result in "sudden
  sniffing death syndrome." This is due to a sudden
  and unexpected disturbance of the heart's rhythm.
  All inhalants can produce sudden sniffing death
  syndrome.
• D. LIVER Halogenated compounds like
  trichloroethylene (a component of aerosol paints
  and correction fluid) have been linked to damage
  of this organ.
• E. KIDNEY Inhalants containing toluene impair the
  kidney's ability to control the amount of acid in
  the blood. This is reversible when toluene leaves
  the body but, in the long-term, kidney stones may
  develop.

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Dangers of Drugs
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Lesson 4 Media Influences
MEDIA any system or way of communicating Ideas
or messages to a large number of people.
What are some examples of media influences
in your life?
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Lesson 3 PSA Example
Hey! Ill have one too!
Think about it When was the last time you saw
animals drinking alcohol?
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Take Charge of Your Own Life by Making
Thoughtful, Responsible Decisions
Define the Problem
Is this Alternative Responsible? Respectful? Real
istic?  
Generate Alternatives
Choose the Best Alternative
ACT
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What we do to Prevent Drug Use?

• The following are some of the things we do to
  prevent drug use

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Prevention at School
Every School Year, the School Resource Officers
and the Kentucky State Police K-9 units perform
dozens of random drug searches of all Pulaski
County School property
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Other Programs

• Student Police Academy
• Archery in School
• Fatal Vision/Bruno
• Hooked on Fishing not on Drugs

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2004 Student Police Academy
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Fatal Vision Program
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Bruno (Middle School)
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Archery Course at the High School Level
The success of Archery in Kentuckys Schools has
been over whelming, In 2005-2006 School Year,
School Resource Officers will continue the middle
school program by providing instruction in
archery at High School Level
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Hooked on Fishing for Everyone!
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Boy or Girl, for Everyone
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What can happened as a result of Drug Use?

• Here are some of the things that can happen as a
  result of Drug Use/Abuse

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Drug Abuse Leads to one of 3 things
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Hospital/Emergency Room
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JAIL
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GRAVEYARD
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