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Writing Prompt
• After viewing this very simple prompt, please take a minute to write a couple of sentences in response
• WLVT PBS 39 and PSEA present Write Now! video writing prompts. These prompts are tools for educators and students to use in the classroom to encourage creative writing. The topics covered in these clips are general/social topics that challenge students to evaluate common day occurrences or items in different ways.
Coming closer to home; some data from the United States
Data presented by Dr. Jolynn Gardner in her presentation “Kids and
Drugs” • By the end of 12th grade:
• 47% have used marijuana
• 56 - 63% have consumed alcohol
• 19% are current cigarette smokers
• 17% have abused Rx medicines
– (Partnership for a Drug-Free America, 2012; Monitoring the Future, 2012)
Substance Abuse:It’s an issue that can hit close to home
• “My goal in life wasn't living...it was getting high. I was falling in a downward spiral towards a point of no return. Over the years, I turned to cocaine, marijuana and alcohol under a false belief it would allow me to escape my problems. It just made things worse. I had everything, a good job, money, a loving family, yet I felt so empty inside. As if I had nothing. Over twenty years of using, I kept saying to myself, I’m going to stop permanently after using this last time. It never happened. There were even moments I had thought of giving up on life.” —John
Another story from http://www.drugfreeworld.org/real-life-
stories.html• “It started with the weed, then the pills (Ecstasy)
and acid, making cocktails of all sorts of drugs, even overdosing to make the rushes last longer. I took copious amounts of these chemicals every day for as long as two years until I had a bad trip one night and went into toxic psychosis. I prayed and cried for this feeling to go away, I had voices in my head, had the shakes and couldn't leave home for six months. I became very withdrawn and thought everyone was watching me. I couldn’t walk in public places. Man! I couldn’t even drive.
The rest of Ben’s story . . .
• “I ended up homeless and on the streets, living and sleeping in a cardboard box, begging and struggling to find ways to get my next meal.
• “I asked myself if this is rock bottom, and I believe that it was. While observing these homeless people I decided that I had had enough. Yes I wanted drugs, but I realized that I could want life more.” —Ben
The Drug Free World website asks that you “share this information with your friends. Drug education saves lives.”
As we transition to the next segment of our presentation, we invite you to pause now to take a
minute to think about someone in your own life who
has struggled with substance abuse
Substance Abuse Mechanisms
Drugs of Abuse Act at Synapses
• Block post synaptic receptors
• Mimic neurotransmitters
• Prevent uptake of neurotransmitter
• Block loading of neurotransmitter into synaptic vesicles
Substance Abuse Mechanisms - Another Look
• For a closer look at the mechanisms of various substances, you can check out . . . .