ADDICTION

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Alcohol is a Drug.

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Alcoholism
Healthy Liver
Cirrhosis of the Liver
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Alcohol Advertising

• Each year, a typical young person in the United
  States is inundated with more than 1,000
  commercials depicting alcohol as glamorous
• Each year the liquor industry spends almost 2
  billion dollars on advertising and encouraging
  the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

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Advertising Effects

• Each year students spend 5.5 billion on
  alcohol, more then they spend on soft drinks,
  tea, milk, juice, coffee, or books combined.
• 56 of students in grade 5 to 12 say that
  alcohol advertising encourages them to drink.

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The First Drink

• Confidence
• Sedative or Energy
• Euphoric Feeling
• Possible Overdose
• Lethal Alcohol Poisoning

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Irreparable Damage
Mush Brain
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• ILLEGAL Prescription
• DRUG USE

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How many Drug Addicts are there in America?
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NOT A DISEASE
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Drug Abuse leads to addiction, addiction leads
to death.
Chronic drug use is the inability to stop using
even when the addict wants to.
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Addicted persons experience a painful reaction
when they stop using mood-altering chemicals that
are Bio-Psycho-Social

• --known as withdrawal--

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Inhalants

• Who abuses inhalants?
• The primary user group was composed of 12- to 17
  year olds.
• Almost 17 million individuals have experimented
  with inhalants at some point in their lives.

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Short Term Affects

• Most inhalants act directly on the central
  nervous system (CNS) to produce psychoactive, or
  mind-altering, effects.

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Coricidin
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What is Coricidin ?

• Dextromethorphan (DXM), a synthetic drug
  chemically similar to morphine.

Acts as a cough suppressant When taken in
recommended dosages
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Coricidin Risk

• Core users run a high risk of dying from
  respiratory depression.
• Liver damage is also a dangerous side effect of
  Core.
• Psychological damage yet undetermined.

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METH
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A Rural Phenomenon

• 71 of the methamphetamine
• offenders live in non-metro areas.
• Their average age is 34, with nearly 41
• percent falling between the ages of
• 25 and 34.

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Faces of Meth
20 Months of Use
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Faces of Meth
3 Months
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Faces of Meth
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Faces of Meth
4 years
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Faces of Meth
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Faces of Meth
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1988
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1980
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A Minnesota Menace

• The number of Meth offenders in Minnesota
  State prisons has increased 390 since 2001.

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Methamphetamines
Thermal Imagery
Healthy Brain
Brain of Meth-User 4 months after quitting
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Meth Mouth
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Meth Mouth
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Cocaine Mouth Damage
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Innocent Victims
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Intravenous Drug Users
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Abscesses and Infection
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Next 2 Slides

• Defects of Birth Due to Drug Addicted Mothers
• Graphic in Nature

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Birth Defects from Using Mothers
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Birth Defects, Baby has No Chance

• Acute Cases of Birth Defects caused by Addicted
  Mothers

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Cutting
Cutting to Cope
 
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Addicts do Recover!

• The recovery rates are very low
• 33 6 Months
• 17 1 year
• 11 5 years to Life
• Less than 2 of IV addicts recover

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Now What Do I Do?

• It Starts with You
• There Is Hope
• Talk to a Friend whos Using About Finding Help
• If its you, talk to recovering addict, or a
  pastor they can point you in the right direction.

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Thank you

• This Presentation provided by
• SET FREE Ministries
• www.setfreemn.com

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