Consequences of addiction

This lesson will focus on the consequences of addiction and how this can affect people with an addiction.

Consequences of addiction

This lesson will focus on the consequences of addiction and how this can affect people with an addiction.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Risk taking
  2. Isolation
  3. Chaotic lifestyle/finances

Content guidance

  • Contains distressing content.

Supervision

Adult supervision recommended

Licence

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5 Questions

Q1.
Which of the following is not a short-term negative effect of marijuana use?
Distorted sense of sight.
Elevated heart rate.
Correct answer: Inability to sleep.
Increased risk of injury.
Q2.
Which of the following signs of addiction do most marijuana abusers not suffer?
Compulsive drug craving and drug seeking
Continued use despite negative consequences in life
Increased tolerance (the need for more and more to feel the same effect)
Correct answer: Withdrawal symptoms: heavy sweating, abdominal cramps, racing heart, nausea, and dizziness
Q3.
Why is increasing tolerance to alcohol a problem?
Correct answer: It is a sign of growing addiction.
It isn’t a problem.
It leads to more DUI arrests.
People’s friends become more obnoxious with higher tolerance.
Q4.
How does a family history of alcoholism affect someone’s risk of being an alcoholic?
Correct answer: 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.
Q5.
Which essential body organ suffers the most life-threatening damage from alcohol?
Heart
Kidneys
Correct answer: Liver
Lungs

5 Questions

Q1.
Addiction causes a lack of control over thoughts, feelings, ideas, and behaviours.
False
Correct answer: True
Q2.
Addiction involves an excessive
Amount of debt or financial problems.
Correct answer: Preoccupation with the addictive behaviour.
Risk of losing one's job or failing out of school.
Tolerance for alcohol or drugs.
Q3.
People are addicted when they keep using a drug even when it causes problems in their life.
False
Correct answer: True
Q4.
Which of the following is not true? People who are addicted to drugs…
Correct answer: Can’t get other medical problems like heart disease, cancer and asthma.
Crave drugs all the time.
Might think and act differently.
Q5.
How can opioid addiction can affect your life?
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.
Correct answer: It can make it hard for you to enjoy things that used to make you happy.

Lesson appears in

UnitRSHE (PSHE) / Drugs and alcohol: Addiction and alcohol dependency

RSHE (PSHE)