Powerpoint about addiction withdrawal and other interesting health topics

1. Withdrawal, and Other
Interesting Stuff
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2. Withdrawal
• When we quit something we are addicted to, our body and mind do
strange things because we still want that thing. It can be stressful and
difficult.

3. Quitting cold turkey
If you quit smoking, drugs or
alcohol suddenly and quickly, we
call it “quitting cold turkey.”
Quitting cold turkey can be
dangerous and very difficult for
heroin addicts and alcoholics.

4. Caffeine withdrawal
• Tired
• Headache
• Get angry or annoyed easily
• Depressed mood
• Can’t concentrate

5. Nicotine withdrawal
anxiety, depression, difficult to
sleep, difficult to concentrate,
hunger, and weight gain.
Symptoms are strong for about
3 days, then go down.
Some people chew gum when
they are trying to quit smoking.

6. Alcohol withdrawal

7. How to deal with alcohol withdrawal
Take medicines like benzodiazeprine
Eat fruits and healthy sugars. Alcohol
was giving you sugar before. Now it’s
not.
Meditate and relax.
Stay away from friends that drink.

9. Cocaine withdrawal

10. Heroin
withdrawal is
probably the
most difficult of
all drugs.
It can last 3-6
months.

11. Narcotics Anonymous (NA)
Other people want to
support you if you are
trying to quit drugs or
alcohol.

12. Cocaine bear
A man jumped out of a
plane holding 40 kgs of
cocaine. He fell and died.
A bear found the cocaine in
the forest and ate all of it.
15 million dollars or
480,000,000 baht of
cocaine! The bear died.
Now the bear is a tourist
attraction in Kentucky

13. The fear frequency- Are ghosts… sound?
The human ear can hear sounds from 20hz to 20,000 hz. When there are
sounds that are about 18-19hz, we cannot really hear them, but they can
make us feel uncomfortable.

14. Scientists said the laboratory was haunted by
ghosts. Someone found that a fan was making
sound at 18 hz, which effects the human eye! The
ghosts they were seeing were caused by the 18hz
sound!
Ghost fan

15. Hearing by bone conduction
It is good for deaf people. It is also good for soldiers. They can protect their ears
from loud guns, but also talk with other soldiers through radio.

16. Fatberg! Yuck!
Baby wipes, fat, and other
garbage can get stuck in the
pipes. Don’t put garbage in the
toilet!

17. She told everyone her son was sick… He was not!
She had Munchausen by proxy syndrome.
She made her son visit the doctor 323 times!
The boy had 13 surgeries!
He was not really sick, but she lied and told
everyone he was sick.
Maybe she did because she wanted to care for
him at home and spend time with him.
Another woman slowly poisoned her son to
death with salt because she liked the
attention.

18. Stampede- When people in
crowds get scared and try to
escape, people get crushed
and die.
323 people died in this
Stampede in Peru.
More than 1400 died at a
stampede at Mecca in Saudi
Arabia in 2015.
Stampedes are
often started
by fires or gun
shots.

19. Disease breathalyzer
This machine can detect
cancer and 16 other
diseases if you breathe into
it! Amazing technology!

20. Dogs can smell disease if they are trained

21. Typhoid Mary ไทฟอยด์
• She worked as a cook in New York from 1900 to 1907.
• She had typhoid disease, but she didn’t have symptoms and didn’t
get sick.
• At least 51 people got typhoid from her, and 3 died.
She never washed her hands after using the
bathroom and before making food. The
police told her to stop making food for
people, but she didn’t want to stop! They
had to put her in jail so she couldn’t make
more people sick!

22. Genie Wiley- The girl who
didn’t learn a language.
Genie was abused by her
father for 13 years.
He didn’t feed her enough, so
she was very small.
He locked her in a dark room
and tied her to a toilet. No
one talked to her. He beat her
if she made sound.
After the police saved her,
scientists studied her and
tried to teach her how to talk.
She never could speak more
than a few words.

23. Lie detector tests (polygraph)
It measures things like blood
pressure, pulse, and breathing to
see if you are lying.
If you are calm and relaxed, it will
not know you are lying and you can
beat the test.
They are not a good test, but police
use it because most people do not
know that it is not good.