Alcohol use has continued to decline among high school seniors with past-month use: 43.5% to 41.2% & alcohol binge drinking declining from 25.2% to 23.2%. What does it say? seniors who have drunk in the past are slowing down or stopping drinking High school seniors are drinking What DOESN’T it say? Time period, season, holidays, break, expectations Location? Type of student, ethnicity, race, gender Socio economic status, population, sample size Who doing research? How? What about those starting drinking Involved College bound Parent adult trust Trusting relationship Who hanging out with Grades, job
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Alcohol use has continued to decline among high school seniors with past-month use: 43.5% to 41.2% & alcohol binge drinking declining from 25.2% to 23.2%.
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Alcohol use has continued to decline among high school seniors with past-month use: 43.5% to 41.2% & alcohol binge drinking declining from
25.2% to 23.2%.
What does it say? seniors who have drunk in the past are slowing
down or stopping drinking High school seniors are drinking
What DOESN’T it say? Time period, season, holidays, break,
expectations Location? Type of student, ethnicity, race,
gender Socio economic status, population, sample size Who doing research? How? What about those starting drinking Involved College bound Parent adult trust Trusting relationship Who hanging out with Grades, job
Describe the impact of this commercial. Explain the mindset of one of the smokers before & after meeting the children. What could you say to someone to convince them to quit?
NicotineNicotineNatural stimulantUsed as insecticideSmall doses…Large doses…Relapse % highFrontal lobes, thalamus,
hippocampus, amygdala
Drug Altered Drug Altered ConsciousnessConsciousness
Psychoactive Drug = alters sensation & perception: arousal, mood/emotion,
attention, thinking, judgment, memory, time sense, self-control
Alters synaptic transmission of neurons…*increasing neurotransmitters *blocking*decreasing *mimicking*blocking *influencing
DependenceDependence Physical = to maintain bodily comfort.
– Occurs with drugs that cause withdrawal – Alcohol, barbiturates, opiates, cocaine, codeine,
tobacco, nicotine, morphine, heroin.
– Flu-like symptoms of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, chills, sweating, cramps,
AND drug tolerance = Neuroadaptation:
PsychologicalPsychological = drug necessary to maintain = drug necessary to maintain emotional or psychologicalemotional or psychological well-being. well-being.
increase craving for drug, and its rewarding increase craving for drug, and its rewarding qualities.qualities.
*can be as powerful as physical!*can be as powerful as physical!
Drug rebound effect: experience of withdrawal symptoms opposite of what drug does.– Depressant withdrawal…excitability– Stimulant
withdrawal…depression/fatigue
Intensity depends on Intensity depends on psychological & environmental psychological & environmental
Danger of synergistic Danger of synergistic effecteffect
I would remind them that if you give a drunk person a cup of coffee, all
you get is a wide awake drunk.
Patterns of UsePatterns of UseExperimental = short term, curiosity.
Social = pleasure or relaxation.
Situational = cope with specific problem.
Compulsive = intense use, extreme dependence.
AlcoholAlcoholReduces inhibitionsProduce feelings of relaxation, euphoria.Slowed reaction time, poor coordinationReduced ability to store new memories, or
retrieve old onesImpairs sexual performance.Myopia…worries and second thoughts