Health - Middle School - Addiction

1. Mental and Emotional Health

2. Welcome to our
Emotional & Mental Health Unit…
(the last one!)
• Day 1 Agenda
– Mental Health Unit begins!
– What is addiction?
• By the end of the lesson you will be able to
explain addiction and understand how it is
relevant to your own life.

3. Please ADD these to your Google
Chrome or other brower
• Go to: Google Chrome
• Then Google web store and Add:
– Time Tracker
– StayFocusd
• Other options:
– SelfControl - http://selfcontrolapp.com/
– Safari: WasteNoTimehttp://www.bumblebeesystems.com/wastenotime/

4. What is addiction?

5. What is addiction?
A condition in which a person
can no longer control his/her
need or desire for something,
usually a “drug”.

6. Are you addicted to the INTERNET?
• Take this test to find out!
http://www.netaddiction.com/index.php?option
=com_bfquiz&view=onepage&catid=46&Itemid
=106

7. Video Games
• Korean computer games VDO
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
digitalnation/living-faster/digital-
natives/gaming-on-every-corner.html?play

8. • Genetics - important factor
• Environmental - 10% of people who
experiment become addicted
• Drugs Alter the Brain’s Reward Pathway –
When the frontal lobe is still developing
drugs more easily set up addiction for life!
Addiction

9. What are drugs?

10. What are drugs?
• chemicals or substances that change the
way our bodies work.
–Find way to bloodstream
–Transported throughout body
–In brain can intensify or dull senses,
alter your sense of alertness,
sometimes decrease physical pain.
• May be helpful or harmful – examples?

11. HW: Addiction Research (formative) -
Due next class
1. Read this article: http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/addiction-can-affect-you-too
2. What is the definition, in your own words?
1. List some examples of different kinds of addiction...
2. What are the signs and symptoms? (for one addiction you
listed as an answer to Question 3)
1. What are the treatment options? (for one example you
used for the answer to Question 3)

12. Mental, Emotional Health
DAY 2

13. Alcohol and Addiction DAY 2
I CAN…
1. I can describe the effects (physical,
emotional, social, mental) of addiction
2. I can describe the different types of
dependence that occur when people become
addicted to something.

14. Brain POP!
Please watch & do Review Quiz…
1. Addiction
http://www.brainpop.com/health/personalh
ealth/addiction/

15. HW:
1. Research Addiction – please share this with
me.

16. Why do teens use?

17. Why do teens use?
• Peer pressure
• Self medication
• Curiosity
• Don’t believe they will become addicted
• Want to be “adult”
• Advertising (tobacco & alcohol)
• Featured in movies – “cool”
• Family does
• Social

18. Why is it extra bad for teens to use
drugs and alcohol?

19. Why is it extra bad for
teens to use?
• Body is still developing
–Especially the brain!
• Leads to risky behavior
• More likely to become
addicted

20. Some terms
• Initial Use
• Transitional Use
• Tolerance
• Physically dependent
• Psychologically dependent
• Withdrawal
Leads to Addiction.

21. Dependence
–Physically dependent:
• when the user relies on the drug/something to feel
normal and the body needs the drug to function
–Psychologically dependent:
• when the user uses the drug/something as an
emotional crutch
–Substance abuse*:
• what does the term substance abuse mean? How
is it different from addiction?
*overindulgence in or dependence on an addictive
substance, esp. alcohol or drugs.

22. Denial and Rationalization
• Denial:
– insistence that there is no problem despite
evidence to the contrary
• Rationalization:
– explanations of use, self imposed rules that
legitimize use
– Ex. statements like – “everyone needs ____”

23. Physical Effects
For all drugs: risky behavior.
For drugs: depends on drug. Common physical
effects include brain damage, liver damage,
lung damage and disease, risk of HIV…

24. What are the effects of drug use on
your brain?
CLICK HERE

25. What are the social and emotional
effects of drug use?

26. Social and emotional effects
• Lying
• Breaking rules
• Social strain
• Emotional difficulty
• Cost
• Problems in school
• Low self-esteem

27. What are the social and emotional
effects of drug use?
CLICK HERE

28. Treatment Options
• Detoxification Program
• 12-Step program
• Group therapy
• Stress management
• Individual therapy
• Family therapy

29. Addiction Day 3

30. I CAN…
1. I can describe what binge drinking is and what
its consequences are.
2. I can recognize external and internal influences
(peer pressure, media, desire to be adult/cool
etc.) that contribute towards initial use and
potentially, addiction.
3. I can discuss the impact of the media and peer
pressure on teen drinking.
4. I can describe the effects (physical, emotional,
social, mental) of addiction

31. 1. When you think of alcohol, what comes to mind?
2. Do your parents drink alcohol? Other family
members?
3. Have you ever tried alcohol?
4. Why do teens drink alcohol?
5. Why is it dangerous for teens to drink?
ALCOHOL

32. Brain POP!
Please watch & do Review Quiz…
1. Alcohol:
http://www.brainpop.com/health/nutrition/
alcohol/

33. Substance Abuse - Alcohol
• What is binge drinking? Here is a PSA (Public Service
Announcement):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTmWr-
IOzb4&feature=player_embedded

34. QUICK WRITE – Write in Silence for
4 minutes and answer these
questions
– you may use your computer
• How did seeing that video make you feel?
• Do you think this happens often?
• What is the definition of Binge Drinking?

35. • Binge drinking is the most common pattern of
excessive alcohol use in the United States, and
all over the world!
• This is defined by men consuming 5 or more
drinks, and women consuming 4 or more
drinks, in about 2 hours.
• Can lead to alcohol poisoning and death.

36. Are you surprised??
I think it’s pretty shocking! Good thing you’re all
educated now though right?

37. Extra stuff!

38. Watch the Video on the next slide…
and answer these afterwards:
• What would you do if you were a parent?
• Do you agree or disagree with this expert’s
opinion?
• You will talk with your partner and then have a
class discussion.

39. ALCOHOL and ADDICTION

40. TPS (think-pair-share)
• What would you do if you were a parent?
• Do you agree or disagree with this expert’s
opinion?

41. Alcohol &Tobacco in the Media
• PSA: CLICK HERE
• Alcohol and Tobacco Advertising Stats – Great
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
qFENyemgk8

42. Discuss the following:
1. How does the media influence alcohol
consumption?
ALCOHOL