LO- Addiction Flashcards
Causes
Learnt behaviour, modeled behaviour, low self-esteem, depression, grief, loss, trauma, peer pressure, personality, addiction tendencies, stress, life experience, abuse, fear, shyness, experimentation, lack of education, bad influences and family breakdown.
Addiction
The excessive need for something in order to feel complete or whole throughout the day.
Teenage drinking
Can impact on the developing brain 3x more girls than boys drink alcohol 4x more likely to develop a long term dangerous addiction Fail at school Choose unhealthy relationships Have risky sexual relationships Be raped Suffer from depression
Huffing
Breathing in the contents of aerosol cans by spraying the aerosol into a bag or onto a piece of cloth and then inhaling it to get high.
Hubble causes
Lung cancer, heart disease and other diseases.
Water does
Aboard some of the nicotine but people can be exposed to sufficient doses to become addicted.
Health hazard
To smokers and others exposed to the smoke emitted.
Not a safe
Alternative to cigarettes because you inhale much more smoke.
Contains
Carbon monoxide, heavy metals and cancer causing elements.
Can also be
Used to smoke week which is sometimes passed through an alcohol like Vodka.
Recovery process
Acceptance
Rehabilitation
Halfway house recovery centers to help reintegrate them into society.
AA/NA (Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous)
Relapse