1. Carmenita Middle School
Health Unit

2. What does it mean to be Healthy?
Combination of (a balance between) :
Physical
Social
Mental
Emotional
Spiritual
Components of life.

3. Why do we learn about health?
High School
Becoming an Adult
Ultimately it’s YOUR CHOICE

4. Health Unit
Drugs
Violence
Family Life

5. Expectations Be RESPECTFUL!! Ask APPROPRIATE questions Ask questions
Take Notes - there will be tests!

6. TOBACCO FAST FACTS Each day 3,000 children smoke their first cigarette
At least 3 million adolescents are smokers.
90% of adult smokers started when they were teenagers.
20% of American teens smoke
Teens who have 2 parents who smoke are more than twice as likely than youth without smoking parents to become smokers.

7. TOBACCO FAST FACTS
According to the Surgeon’s General, Teenagers who smoke are:
3x more likely to use alcohol
8x more likely to smoke marijuana
22x more likely to use Cocaine
Adolescent girls who smoke & take oral birth control pills greatly increase their chances of having blood clots & strokes.

8. Why is Smoking Bad? Lung Cancer Throat Cancer Increase risk of
Coronary heart disease
Stroke
Lung Disease
Emphysema
Bronchitis

10. Why is Smoking Bad? Teeth & Skin Yellow Increase Aging Rate
Clothes, Hair & Breath Smell
Expensive habit - $ $5.00 per pack
If smoke pack/day = $31.50 / week
= $1638 / year

11. What is in a cigarette?

12. If People know that smoking is so bad for them, then why do they do it?

13. What type of influences will encourage YOU to start?

14. What’s going to stop you from starting?

15. Expectations Be RESPECTFUL!! Ask APPROPRIATE questions Ask questions
Take Notes - there will be tests!

16. Alcohol Fast Facts
The average age when youth first try alcohol is 11 years for boys & 13 years for girls.
By age 14, 41% of children have had at least one drink.
Young people who begin drinking before age 15 are 5 x more likely to develop alcoholism than those who start at age 21.
Teens that drink are 50X more likely to use cocaine than those who don’t.

17. Alcohol Fast Facts
Parent influence greatly increases/decreases teenage drinking.
Leading cause of death among teenagers
Automobile crashes, homicides & suicides
More than 1,700 college students in the U.S. are killed each year
about 4.65 a day - as a result of alcohol-related injuries.
Alcohol poisoning, DUI’s, suicide, date rape, family & school problems

18. How does Alcohol affect the body?
Short-Term Effects
Dizziness
Talkativeness
Slurred speech
Nausea
Vomiting
Impairs judgment
Impairs coordination
Increase aggressive acts

19. How does Alcohol affect the body?
Long Term Effects
Alcoholism
Damage to brain & liver.
Withdrawal symptoms
Anxiety, tremors, hallucinations & convulsions.

20. Should you be worried?

21. True or False?
I can sober up by drinking water/coffee or eating bread after drinking?
FALSE
A beer, glass of wine & a shot of liquor has the same amount of alcohol.
TRUE

23. Driving Under the Influence D.U.I.

24. What’s going to influence you to start drinking before you turn 21?

25. Street Names of Marijuana
420
Acapulco gold
BC bud
Bubble Gum
Buddha
Cheeba
Chronic
Dope
Ganja
Green goddess
Herb Homegrown
Hydro
Indo
KGB (killer green bud)
Kindbud
Locoweed
Mary Jane
Shake
Sinsemilla
Skunk
Wacky tabacky

26. Marijuana Fast Facts 20% of 8th graders reported trying marijuana.
Marijuana contains 50-70% more carcinogens than cigarettes.
Youth who use marijuana are 104X more likely to use cocaine.
Very few young people use other illegal drugs without using marijuana first.

27. Effects of Marijuana Short Term High or Nothing “Munchies” & Thirst
USUALLY Anxiety & Paranoia
Memory Loss
Learning Problems
Trouble Problem Solving
Distorted sight, sound, time & touch
Loss of muscle coordination
Increased heart rate

28. Effects of Marijuana Long - Term Cancer Lung Infections
Pneumonia
Reduced immune system
Addiction

29. How to Recognize Someone Using Pot?
Dizzy & trouble walking
Silly & Giggly for no reason
Red, Bloodshot eyes
Can’t remember
Sleepy

30. What’s going to STOP you from trying Marijuana?

31. Discuss with your neighbor:
Dangers of smoking cigarettes
Dangers of drinking alcohol
Dangers of smoking marijuana

32. What is Drug Abuse?
Drug Abuse - the use of a drug for NONmedical purposes.
Does drug abuse only occur with illegal drugs?
What other types of drugs can be abused?

33. Drug Abuse Over-the-Counter Medicines Prescription Medicines
Illegal Drugs

34. Legal Drugs
Over-the-Counter
Examples?
Prescription Drugs

35. Misusing Medicines Take medicine according to directions
Take the recommended dosage
Take the medicine for the length of time prescribed by a doctor
Do not give your prescription medicines to others.
Don’t mix medicines w/ out your doctor’s approval.

36. Illegal Drugs Stimulants Amphetamines Depressants Narcotics
Hallucinogens
Club Drugs
Inhalants

37. Stimulants Amphetamines “SPEED”
- strong stimulant drugs that speed up the nervous system.
Cocaine/Crack - “blow,” “snow,” and “coke”
- affects heart rate = heart attack
- damage nasal membranes
- cause lung problems

38. Depressants Drugs that slow down the body’s functions and reactions.
Tranquilizers
Barbiturates
Alcohol
Sleepiness, coma & death
*especially if combined with alcohol*

39. Narcotics Drugs that relieve pain and dull the senses Heroin Morphine
Codeine
Damages the lungs, liver, kidneys & brain.

40. Hallucinogens Drugs that distort moods, thoughts, and senses
PCP/Angel Dust
LSD
Acid
disoriented, less sensitive to pain, & violent

41. Club Drugs Illegal drugs available in nightclubs/raves Ecstasy - X
GHB - G - liquid Ecstasy
Rohyphnol - roofie
Ketamine - special K - vitamin K
Disorientation, nausea, unconsciousness, death

42. Inhalants
Substances whose fumes are breathed in to produce mind-altering sensations.
Glue
gasoline
Spray paint
Nausea, dizziness, mental confusion, loss of motor skills, permanent brain damage, death