Transcript 7th Grade - Wyckoff School District

7th Grade
1. Please get your folders and a sheet of
paper and take your seat.
2. DO NOW:
• Why do you think that some people
experiment with drugs and alcohol?
• Why do you think that some people go
from experimentation with drugs and
alcohol to a more serious drug
dependence?
Reasons People experiment with
drugs:
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Isolated
Lonely
Sad
Depressed
Problems
Lack of support from family or friends
Curious
Bored
Role models
To fit in
Pressured
The Addiction Cycle
• The addiction cycle is a scientific theory about
how experimentation with drugs can lead to
addiction
• It explains the social, mental, and emotional
reasons behind drug use.
• The addiction cycles consists of 6 steps.
Step 1: A young person is experiencing pain
or discomfort because of family or school
problems.
Step 2: The individual is looking for ways to
feel better, so he or she starts to take drugs.
Step 3: At first, the drugs seem to work
because they dull the pain the person is
trying to escape from. So the person keeps
taking the drug.
Step 4: From this point, it often doesn't take long
for the person to become addicted because he or
she has developed a physical dependence (an
Addiction) to the substance. Now the person
can think only about getting more of this drug just
to function.
Step 5: At this stage, a serious downward spiral
begins. The person will sacrifice anything; family,
friends, school, or work for drugs. Changed by
drugs both physically and mentally, the
person is now an addict.
Step 6: Death, jail, rehab.
7th Grade
1. Please get your folders and a
sheet of paper and take your
seat.
2. DO NOW:
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What is the difference between
abuse and dependence of drugs?
There are 2 types of over
drinking/drugging
• 1. A problem of cells in the brain
• 2. A situation of poor choice
Abuse
• Drug use is voluntary
• User has control
• Is making bad choices
Dependence
• Drug use is not a choice
• User is not in control
• It is disease over which the person has no
control
• It is caused by a brain dysfunction caused by
drug use
• It is a disease