All about drugs | Drugs and the body | What about my community and relationships | Surprise topic? |
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What is the most used drug?
Caffeine
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What are 3 effects alcohol does to your body?
• Reduced coordination
• Slurred speech • Slower reflexes • Feeling relaxed |
Name three relationships that can be affected by alcohol use?
Family, friends, co-workers and boss
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What is binge drinking and how many drinks does it take?
Drinking to get drunk, and drinking more then four standard drinks in one occasion
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What are 5 products that contain caffeine?
Tea, coffee, soft drink, energy drink and chocolate bars
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What are two long term effects of tobacco use?
Throat, mouth, nose and lung cancer
Emphysema Increase risk of stroke, hypertension, heart attack Early wrinkles Tooth decay |
Alcohol and young people is leading to a greater incidence of what?
violence
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What is the most common media strategy in health promotion commercials?
Scare tactics
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Alcohol is a stimulant, depressant or hallucinogen?
It is a depressant
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Feeling more alert and active, increased heart rate and needing to urinate more frequently are effects of what drug?
Caffeine
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What sort of influence do parents have on their children and legal drug use?
Influence could be both positive or negative because parents need to model to their kids how to treat alcohol, as children mimic and adopt their parents habits and attitudes.
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Give an example of polydrug use?
Energy drinks and alcohol or painkillers and energy drink
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What are analgesics? (two points to include) and what form do they come in?
Are medicines that relieve pain and can be instructed or prescribe to use by a doctor but some misuse to get a high. They can be tables, soluble powders and liquids
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Cirrhosis of the liver, damage to foetus if pregnant and loss of memory are effects of what use of drug?
Alcohol use long term
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What are three sources in our society that influences our attitudes towards drug use?
Culture, media, parents, education
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Provide two examples of different cultural views on legal drugs ?
•Europeans (Italians) consider it drinking wine with a meal is the ‘norm’
•Australia and America celebrate passage of adulthood by being able to drink •Asian country’s have far less legislations and laws about tobacco use and it is more acceptable to smok |
What are the three most common chemicals in tobacco?
Nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide
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What mainly develops when individuals misuse analgesics?
psychological dependance
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List 3 impacts legal drug use has on the community?
increase in violence
increase in government health cost decrease in productivity due to days off for being sick |
How many mL of alcohol equates to 1 standard drink?
10 ml
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