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Name 4 controllable risk factors.
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- Smoking
- Exercising - Healthy diet - Drugs/ alcohol |
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Name 4 uncontrollable risk factors.
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- Age
- Race - Heredity - Gender |
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knowledge of health information needed to make good choices about your health
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Health Literacy
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anything that increases the likelihood of injury, disease or other health problems
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Risk factor
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tools for building a healthy life.
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Life skills
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Name the 6 aspects of health.
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- Physical Health
- Emotional Health - Social Health - Mental Health - Spiritual Health - Environmental Health |
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the aspect of health that refers to the way your body functions
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Physical Health
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the aspect of health that refers to expressing your emotions in a positive, nondestructive way.
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Emotional Health
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the quality of your relationships with friends, family, teachers, and others you are in contact with.
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Social Health
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the ability to recognize reality and cope with the demands of daily life.
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Mental Health
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is maintaining harmonious relationships with other living things and having spiritual direction and purpose.
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Spiritual Health
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keeping your air and water clean, your food safe, and the land around you enjoyable and safe.
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Environmental Health
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What are some examples of different life skills?
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- Assessing your health
- Communicating effectively - Practicing wellness - Coping - Being a wise consumer - Evaluating media messages - Using community resources - Making great decisions - Using refusal skills - Setting goals |
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pressure that results from being swayed to do something because people you look up to are doing
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Indirect pressure
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pressure that results from someone who tries to convince you to do something you normally wouldn’t
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Direct pressure
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What are the steps in goal making?
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- Safe
- Similar - Sensible - Specific - Supported - Satisfying |
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Goals should be _________; you should feel good about yourself when you reach your goals.
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Satisfying
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your parents or other responsible adults should ________ this goal.
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Support
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good goals are ______and make sure they are very clear
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Specific
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It’s important that your goals, especially short-term goals, are _______ and realistic.
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Sensible
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the goal you set for yourself should be ______ to goals you have set in the past, and new goals should not contradict earlier ones.
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Similar
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ask yourself if this goal can be harmful to you.
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Safe
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What does each letter of the GREAT decision making model stand for?
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-Give thought to the problem.
-Review your choices. -Evaluate the consequences of each choice. -Assess and choose the best choice. -Think it over afterward. |
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goals that can be achieved quickly
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Short term goals
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Name 3 communication skills.
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-Preventing misunderstanding
-Building healthy relationships -Expressing yourself |
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state of mental well being in which one can cope with the demands of everyday life
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Mental Health
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the way of talking that explains how you feel while remaining firm, calm and polite
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“I” messages
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measure on how much you value, respect and feel confident about yourself
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Self esteem
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goals that will take you months or years to achieve
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Long term goals
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sadness and hopelessness that keep a person from carrying out everyday activities; can lead to suicide
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Depression
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What are the 5 stages in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
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- Self-actualization:
- Esteem stage: - Social Stage: - Safety Stage: - Physical Stage: |
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The stage in Maslow's hierarchy of needs when the person reachesthe achievement of the best that a person can be.
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Self-actualization
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The stage in Maslow's hierarchy of needs when the person's need to have self-respect and to achieve their goal is met.
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Esteem stage
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The stage in Maslow's hierarchy of needs when the person reaches the need for love, affection, and acceptance.
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Social Stage
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The stage in Maslow's hierarchy of needs when the a person's need for shelter and protection from danger is met.
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Safety Stage
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The stage in Maslow's hierarchy of needs when the need for food, water, sleep, and exercise is met.
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Physical Stage
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Positive stresses that energize you and help you reach your goal
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Eustress
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negative stress that can make a person sick or keep someone from reaching their goals
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Distress
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Causes of stress are also known _______.
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stressors
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The stressor that includes conditions or events in your physical environment that cause you stress.
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Environmental
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Name the 5 causes of stress.
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- Environmental
- Biological - Thinking - Behavioral - Life changing |
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The stressor that includes any major life change, whether positive or negative.
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Life changing
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The stressor that includes unhealthy behavior.
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Behavioral
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The stressor that includes any mental challenge that causes stress.
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Thinking
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The stressor that includes conditions that make it different for your body to take part in daily activities.
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Biological
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grinding of the teeth
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TMJ
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A _________ is a ceremony to remember the deceased
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Memorial services
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List 3 ways to mannage stress.
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- Exercise
- Eat healthy - Get enough rest |
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Name all 5 stages of grief.
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- Denial
- Anger - Bargaining - Depression - Acceptance |
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The stage of grief when the person refuses to believe the loss has occurred.
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Denial
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The stage of grief when a person experiences rage, and may even try to blame themselves.
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Anger
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The stage of grief when final attempt at avoiding what is true.
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Bargaining
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The stage of grief when you experience sadness
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Depression
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The stage of grief when you begin to learn how to live with loss.
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Acceptance
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Chemical messenger is known as a ______.
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Neurotransmitter
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What are 5 symptoms of suicide?
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- Feeling hopeless
- Using alcohol/ drugs - Verbal hints - Taking more risk - Giving away personal items |
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What are 3 ways drugs enter the body?
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- Implanted pumps
- Inhalation - Injection |
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OTC medicine stands for
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over-the-counter medicine
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any medicine that can be bought without a prescription.
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OTC (over the counter)medicine
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A written order from a doctor for a specific medicine
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Prescription drugs
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FDA stands for the _______.
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Food and Drug Administration
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approves food, drugs, and cosmetics before they can be sold.
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FDA
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any effect that is caused by a drug and that is different from the drug’s intended effect.
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Side effects
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WHat is included on a prescription label?
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- The dose (how much of the medicine to take)
- When you should take the medicine - How often you should take the medicine - The length of time you should take the medicine |
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What is the sequence of drug approval for the FDA?
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1) Lab Testing
2) Animal Testing 3) Healthy Human Testing 4) Clinical Testing 5) The drug is accepted or rejected. |
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This step in approving a drug includes chemical tests or tests on cell cultures
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Lab Testing
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This step in approving a drug includes drug testing on animals.
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Animal Testing
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This step in approving a drug consists of volunteers taking the drug and being monitored for side effects and action of drug.
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Healthy Human Testing
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This step in approving a drug includes testing on humans who have the condition.
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Clinical Testing
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What is the last step of the approval of a drug?
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The FDA then approves or rejects the drug on the data submitted, and the drug becomes a prescription medicine.
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drug in wine, beer and liquor that causes intoxication
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Alcohol
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WHat are the long term effects of alcohol?
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- Brain damage
- Irregular heartbeat, high blood pressure, enlargement of the heart, anemia - Hepatitis, liver cancer, cirrhosis - Can’t absorb vitamins - Irritation to the esophagus and stomach; stomach bleeding; caner of the mouth, esophagus, and stomach |
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the intentional improper or unsafe use of a drug.
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Drug abuse
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Name the 5 stages of alcoholism:
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- Social Drinking
- Problem drinking - Tolerance - Dependence - Alcoholism |
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STage of alcoholism where the drinker only drinks with people at social gatherings
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Social Drinking
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Stage of alcoholism wher the drinker cannot drink alcohol in moderation
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Problem drinking
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Stage of alcoholism where the drinker has lost control
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Alcoholism
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Stage of alcoholism where the drinker’s body needs alcohol to function normally
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Dependence
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Stage of alcoholism where the drinker needs more alcohol to produce the same effect.
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Tolerance
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Name 6 effects of alcoholism on family.
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- Guilty feelings
- Unpredictable Behaviors - Violence - Neglect and isolation: - Protecting the alcoholic: - Ignoring one’s own needs |
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Name the 4 stages of Addiction.
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- Drug use
- Tolerance - Dependence - Addiction |
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The stage of addiction that activates the brain reward system.
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Drug use
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The stage of addiction when the user needs more of the drug for the same effect
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Tolerance
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The stage of addiction when theuser experiences uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms.
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Dependence
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The stage of addiction when the user has lost control of their habit.
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Addiction
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Effect of alcoholism on a family when the alcoholic usually spend their time preoccupied with drinking and does not have time to care for family members.
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Neglect and isolation
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Effect of alcoholism on a family when family member are enabling; helping an addict avoid the negative consequences of his or her behavior.
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Protecting the addict
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Effect of alcoholism on a family when codependency (the condition in which a family member or friend sacrifices his or her own needs to meet the needs of an addict) comes around.
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Ignoring one’s own needs
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Name 4 effects of alcoholism on society.
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- Society pays huge emotional, physical, and financial costs for alcoholism.
- Many cases of murder, family violence, child abuse, rape, and assault are attributed to alcohol-related violence. - Leads to missing days of school or work - Money is spent on treating alcohol related illnesses, and to cover losses due to alcohol-related crime. |
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Effects of smoking
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- Increased plaque, gum disease, tooth decay, yellowing teeth
- Kills he cilia, increasing chance for bronchitis, emphysema, and lung cancer - Reduces oxygen to brain, narrows blood vessels, can lead to strokes - Leads to addiction - Leads to wrinkles, premature aging, increases chance of skin cancer - Increased chance of suffering from cancer |
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students against destructive decisions
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SADD
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AA stands for...
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Alcoholics anonymous
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a form of therapy for revering alcoholics
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AA or Alcoholics anonymous
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the highly addictive drug found in tobacco products
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Nicotine
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What are the 3 things that are known about HIV treatment?
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- AIDS cocktail
- Some people have been exposed to HIV and have in fact been proven to be immune. - Medicines are so powerful they help the immune system stay strong and slow down or stop the reproduction of viral cells. Sometimes the infected person cannot contaminate another person for the disease. |
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AN __________ is numerous powerful medications used to treat HIV.
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AIDS cocktail
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What do the medicines used to treat HIV do? (4 things)
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Medicines are so powerful they help the immune system stay strong and slow down or stop the reproduction of viral cells. Sometimes the infected person cannot contaminate another person for the disease.
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_ out of 10 people in Africa have AIDS because of education, and culture.
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9
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Whats does the acronym AIDS stand for?
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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
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When is it that a patient is said to have AIDS?
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A patient is said to have AIDS once they begin to get sick from the HIV. The body stops producing helper T cells after approximately 10 years with HIV.
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AIDS is an ______ disease attack weak host
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opportunist
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There are more orphans in Africa then any other continent due to this disease.
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AIDS
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HIV cannot be transmitted through ______ or ______
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saliva or tears
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If you have a cut and come into contact with this you can get HIV.
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Blood
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transmits AIDS and is produced by the male reproductive system
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Seminal fluid
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transmits AIDS and is produced by women’s reproductive system
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Vaginal fluid
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Mother’s with HIV cannot give this to their babies because it transmit the virus.
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Breast milk
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What is the problem with people who test at home for HIV?
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-People testing privately do not get the treatment they should and can continue to spread it.
- Through independent labs statistics go unreported. |
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What does the acronym HIV stand for?
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Human immuno-deficiency virus
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Infects the helper T cells (macrophage).
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HIV
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HIV is a _____, or an epidemic proportion around the world.
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Pandemic
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HIV is called a ____ ____ because it is consistently changing and mutating it DNA code.
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retro virus
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virus that is consistently changing and mutating it DNA code.
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retro virus
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It takes about __ days for your immune system to prepare to fight the HIV.
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90
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What happens while your immune system is making antibodies to fight off HIV?
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While the immune system is making antibodies to fight the body, the HIV undergoes a complete change in its DNA code and genetic structure making it look EXACTLY like a helper T cell, but cannot function like a helper T cell.
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The problem with looking for HIV antibodies is that...
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It takes 90 days to make them. So tests will not provide correct readings until 90 days after the virus has been in your body.
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What virus has very minimal symptoms and patients sometimes go on without treatment.
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HIV
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No HIV test provides a valid answer, so doctors must look for these in the body.
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antibodies
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What are the 3 ways to be tested for HIV?
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- Tests at clinics
- Blood tests in your doctors office- Kits in drug-stores for mail away tests. |
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How are test for HIV conducted?
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detect antibodies in your saliva.
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Highly contagious fungus
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Athlete’s foot
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Fungus that results in a scaly, circular rash.
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Ringworm
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Being vulnerable to certain diseases or sicknesses is known as...
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Immunity
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What are the 3 body’s main lines of defense?
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- Physical and chemical barriers
- Inflammation - Immune system |
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A bacterial infection of the digestive system, usually spread by eating contaminated foods.
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Salmonella
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What are some examples of teh physical and chemical barries defending your body?
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skin, mucous membranes, etc.
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A reaction to injury or infection that is characterized by pain and readiness.
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Inflammation
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Pus is categorized under which of the body's defense systems?
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Inflammation
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Symptoms of salmonella include...
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headache, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting
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Salmonella is transmitted by...
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eating food from an infected animal or food contaminated by an infected person.
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Prevented by thorough cooking of animal food products, hand washing, refrigeration.
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salmonella
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How can salmonella be prevented?
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thorough cooking of animal food products, hand washing, refrigeration.
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any agent that causes disease
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Pathogen
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What are the 4 ways to spread infectious diseases?
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- Person to person
- Food and water - Environment - Animals |
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Receiving an infectious disease by kissing, drinking from the same glass, and sexual contact is known as ___________ tranmission.
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Person to person
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Receiving an infectious disease from food bourn disease that can be spread when that food is contaminated is known as tramission thorugh ____ ___ _______.
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Food and water
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Many pathogens live in soil and the spread of infectious disease this way is called transmission through ______.
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Environment
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a crystallized form of cocaine that is smoked, effects are more intense but doesn’t last as long, highly addictive
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Crack cocaine
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Cocaine is _____ and ______.
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snorted and injected
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COcaine as well as crack cocaine is made from the _____ _____.
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coco plant
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What are some of the effects of rohypol?
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- loss of inhibitions,
- disoriented, - loss of memory while on the drug |
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Effects of this drug include loss of inhibitions, disoriented, loss of memory while on the drug
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Rohypol
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Rohypol is easy to mix with ______. WHich is why it is a common date rape drug.
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alcohol
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This common date rape drug is easy to mix with alcohol.
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Rohypol
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Rohypol is also known as
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“roofies”
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Depressant used as a date rape drug
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Rohypol
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Also known as “roofies”
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Rohypol
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Heroin is responsible for many of these (2 things).
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many deaths and crimes.
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Creates “rush” and dream like state that is highly addictive.
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Heroin
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Tolerance for this opiate develops rapidly.
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Heroin
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What are the 4 ways heroin can be taken?
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Swallowed, sorted, smoked or injected
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Most commonly abused opiate is ______.
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Heroin
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Short term effects include silly and giggly, dizzy, red eyes, sleep, having the munchies, anxiety
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Marijuana
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Also known as Mary Jane, grass, pot, bud, reefer.
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Marijuana
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Marijuana can be...
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- Can be eaten,
- brewed in tea, and - smoked |
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Effects of Marijuana are felt within ______.
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minutes
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Signs of use include depression, lost of interest, carelessness of grooming, hostility and relationship problems.
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Marijuana
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Long term effects include cancer, weakened immune system, breathing problems, baby defects
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Marijuana
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What are some of the short term effects of marijuana?
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- silly and giggly,
- dizzy, - red eyes, - sleep, - having the munchies, - anxiety |
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Effects of LSD include...
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-increase energy,
- alters mood, and - creates strange thoughts and sensations |
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What are the commone side effects of LSD?
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- nausea,
- vomiting, - dizziness, and - bizarre body sensations |
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Thsi drug increase energy, alters mood and creates strange thoughts and sensations
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LSD
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People on LSD are considered to be
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tripping or on a trip
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Someone who is tripping, or on a trip is considered to be on this drug.
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LSD
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How can a person take LSD?
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Tablet form or absorbed through the skin or tongue
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What is the most known hallucinogen
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LSD
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smoke that is inhaled through tobacco product and exhaled by a tobacco smoker
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Main stream smoke
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smoke that escapes from the tip of the cigarette, cigar, or pipe
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Side stream smoke
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tiny hairs that constantly remove mucus from the lungs
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Cilia
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Examples are snuff, and chewing tobacco
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Smokeless tobacco
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- Contain many different carcinogens and lead to mouth sores and oral cancer
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Smokeless tobacco
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condition in which infants die in their sleep for unknown reasons
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Sudden infant death syndrome
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disorder that is a combination of chronic bronchitis and obstructive emphysema
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COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder
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The acronym COPD stands for...
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chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder
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contain tobacco and a spice that makes them taste better making it more appealing
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Herbal cigarettes
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Examples include cloves, bidis, and kreteks
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Herbal cigarettes
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Tobacco use costs families...
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- over $1500 a year in tobacco products,
- lost wages due to illness, - medical bills, and - funeral costs. |
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Tobacco use costs society...
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- $138 billion a year in financial costs due to smoking, accidental fires.
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Stimulant, also known as Meth, crystal, or ice.
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Methamphetamine
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Methamphetamine is also known as...
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- Meth,
- crystal, or - ice. |
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Usually appears as white or yellowish crystals called rocks that are crushed and smoked, injected, or snorted.
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Methamphetamine
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Highly addictive drug made in illegal labs known as "Meth" labs
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Methamphetamine
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Methamphetamine is made in ____ ____ also known as "____" _____
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illegal labs;
"Meth" labs |
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Methamphetamine crystals are called
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rocks
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Methamphetamine crystals can be...
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- crushed and smoked,
- injected, or - snorted. |
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Synthetic versions of the male hormone
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Anabolic steroids or ROIDS
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Anabolic steroids are also called...
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ROIDS
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Drug commonly abused by athletes.
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anabolic steroids or ROIDS
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Used to assist growth and avoid muscle deterioration
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anabolic steroids or ROIDS
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List some side effects of anabolic steroids.
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- sever acne,
- stunted growth, - aggression, - liver cancer, - paranoia, - heart disease, - baldness, - ROID rage, - shirking testes, - reduced sperm count, - bloating (female), - rapid weight gain (female), and - disrupted menstrual cycle (female). |
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ROIDS are really known as
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anabolic steroids
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Anabolic steroids are commonly abused mostly by
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athletes
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