Consequences of addiction

RSHE (PSHE)

Drugs and alcohol: Addiction and alcohol dependency

Depiction or discussion of serious mental health issues including eating disorders, self-harm, suicide or attempted suicide, or the aftermath of such an event

Addiction causes a lack of control over thoughts, feelings, ideas, and behaviours.

Preoccupation with the addictive behaviour.

Risk of losing one's job or failing out of school.

People are addicted when they keep using a drug even when it causes problems in their life.

Can’t get other medical problems like heart disease, cancer and asthma.

Which of the following is not true? People who are addicted to drugs…

If you stop taking opioids all of a sudden, it can make you feel calm and happy.

It can have short-term effects but not long-term effects on your health.

It can make it hard for you to enjoy things that used to make you happy.

How can opioid addiction can affect your life?

Which of the following is not a short-term negative effect of marijuana use?

Continued use despite negative consequences in life

Increased tolerance (the need for more and more to feel the same effect)

Withdrawal symptoms: heavy sweating, abdominal cramps, racing heart, nausea, and dizziness

Which of the following signs of addiction do most marijuana abusers not suffer?

People’s friends become more obnoxious with higher tolerance.

Why is increasing tolerance to alcohol a problem?

Both genes and growing up in a home with alcoholics affect risk.

Children of alcoholics cannot drink at all or they will become alcoholics.

Genes can cause vulnerability to alcoholism.

Growing up in a home with alcoholics can cause vulnerability to alcoholism even in adopted children.

There is no added risk of alcoholism to children of alcoholics.

How does a family history of alcoholism affect someone’s risk of being an alcoholic?

Which essential body organ suffers the most life-threatening damage from alcohol?

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Consequences of addiction

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