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Substance Use
and its Relationship to
Physical Activity, Healthy
Eating and Injury Prevention
and the impact on
Mental Health and Emotional WellBeing
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Today’s workshop will:
• Introduce a framework which pulls
together substance use and related issues
under the umbrella of Physical Activity,
Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being
• Allow us to consider how Substance use
relates to components of Physical Activity,
Healthy Eating and Injury Prevention
• Consider how this impacts on Mental
Health and Healthy Living
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Health and Physical Activity Framework*
Living Skills:
Active Living
Movement
Healthy Living
Healthy Eating
Personal
Skills
Personal Safety and
Injury Prevention
Human Development
and Sexual Health
Interpersonal
Skills
Substance Use, Addictions
and Related Behaviours
Physical and Mental Health and Emotional Well-being
Critical and
Creative
Thinking
Resiliency Building
Family
*adapted from The Ontario Health and Physical Education Curriculum
Peers
School
Community
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Active Living
Active Participation
• Regular participation, life long activity
• Enjoyment, motivation
Physical Fitness
• Fitness development through regular physical
activity, personal fitness plans
Safety
• Personal safety and safety of others during
physical activity
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Movement Competence
Movement Skills and Concepts
• Stability, locomotion, manipulation
• Body awareness, effort, spatial awareness
• Movement principles
Movement Strategies
• Components of physical activity
• Strategies and tactics in physical activities
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Healthy Living
Understanding Health Concepts
• Understanding the factors that contribute to
healthy growth and development
Making Healthy Choices
• Applying health knowledge, making decisions
about personal health and well-being
Making Connections for Healthy Living
• Linking personal health and well being to others
and the world around them
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Healthy Living
This strand focuses on the following four
health topics:
• Healthy Eating
• Personal Safety and Injury Prevention
• Substance Use, Addictions and Related
Behaviours
• Human Development and Sexual Health and the
impact on overall Mental Health and well being
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Living Skills
Personal Skills
- self awareness and self monitoring skills
- adaptive, management and coping skills
Interpersonal Skills
- communication skills
- relationship and social skills
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Living Skills
Critical and Creative Thinking
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processing
planning
drawing conclusions/presenting results
reflecting/evaluating
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Substance Use
A “drug” is defined as anything other than food
that changes how the body or the mind
works.
Drugs are a broad category which can include
substances such as:
– prescribed medicines
– over the counter medications such as cough
syrups, painkillers
– caffeine, colas, tobacco and alcohol
– marijuana, cocaine and party drugs.
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Current Statistics
(from the 2009 OSDUHS)
Alcohol is the most commonly used drug by
youth.
• 58.2% of students (grades 7-12) had used
alcohol during the past year
• 22.5% of students drank more than once a
month
• 24.7% of students reported having had 5 or
more drinks at one sitting at least once in the
month before the survey
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Current Statistics
Cannabis (Marijuana or Hash) is the second
most popular drug.
• 25.6% of the students surveyed reported using
cannabis in the previous 12 months
• 14.5% used cannabis six times or more during
the past year
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Current Statistics
Non-medical use of Opioid Pain Relievers is
the 3rd most popular.
• About 18% of students report using a
prescription opioid pain reliever non-medically in
the previous year
• Females (20%) are more likely than males
(16%) to use an opioid pain reliever nonmedically.
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Current Statistics
Tobacco is the fourth most popular drug.
• 11.7% of students (grade 7-12) smoked in the
previous year
• 5% of students smoked one or more cigarettes
daily
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Factors that influence
Substance Use
The drug itself:
• Which drug is being taken?
• How much and over what period of time?
• Is the drug being taken alone or in
combination with other drugs?
• How is being taken?
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Factors that Influence
Substance Use
The Individual taking the drug:
• What is their age, gender, body weight and
overall health?
• Mood or state of mind?
• Individuals expectations of the drug?
• Knowledge and experience with the drug?
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Factors that Influence
Substance Use
The circumstance under which the
substance is available and consumed:
• What is the setting?
• Availability of the drug?
• How drug is produced?
• How drug is promoted or advertised?
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Prevention
A range of practices, strategies and interventions which aim
to:
• Avoid the use of substance(s)
– e.g. abstinence
• Delay the use of substance(s)
– e.g. age of first time use
• Avoid or reduce the problems associated with the use
of substance(s)
– e.g. harm reduction
• Decrease the use of substance(s)
– e.g. moderation
• Stop the use of substance (s)
– e.g. cessation
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Resiliency
Lifton (1994) : identified resiliency as the
human capacity of all individuals to
transform and change, no matter what
their risks; it is an innate “self-righting
mechanism”
15 year old student (Resiliency in Action)
“Bouncing back from problems and stuff with
more power and more smarts”
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Resiliency
Building Resiliency :
• Individual
• Family
• School
• Community
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Individual
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Self esteem
Trust, optimism, sense of hope
Sense of self reliance
Ability to handle stress
Sociability
Positive coping skills
Appropriate development for one’s age
Childhood competency – regular chores,
having a part-time job, etc
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Family
• Caring family
• One responsible adult throughout
childhood
• Family Communication
• High parental expectations, support and
supervision
• Strong extended family network
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School
• Provides stable and safe environment to
learn
• Bond and engage positively with teachers
and other students
• Nurtures commitment to learning and
sharing with others
• Nurture social abilities and development of
relationships
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Community
• Provide social support in the form of
belonging, stability and continuity
• Meeting adults in the community who help
them develop trust, autonomy and
initiative
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Community
• Provide support to parents in their
nurturing roles
• Provide an open, supportive and
educational climate for the basic
infrastructure where family life is lived
(daycare, employment, recreation, etc)
and a context where shared values and
expectations are developed
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How does Substance Use Relate
to :
•Physical Activity
•Healthy Eating
•Personal Safety and Injury Prevention
•Sexual Health
And what is the impact on Mental Health and
overall Wellbeing
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Physical Activity
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Team sports
Individual sport
School performance
Personal fitness
Chronic disease
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Healthy Eating
• Body Image
• Food choices
• Family engagement*
• Chronic disease
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Personal Safety and Injury
Prevention
• Drinking and driving / boating /
snowmobiling
• Marijuana use and driving
• Binge drinking
• Fights and aggression
• Sports
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Sexual Health
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Decision making
Dating and relationships
Unintended pregnancy
Pregnancy
Sexual harassment
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Mental Health and
Emotional Well Being
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Social anxiety
Coping with stress
Self medicating
Depression
ADHD
Learning disabilities
Anxiety disorder
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Relationship between
Substance Use and
Mental Health Disorders
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Create
Trigger
Exacerbate
Mimic
Mask
Independence
Reference-(Trupin &Boesky, 2001)
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Resources/Projects
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For the Record
Taking Charge
Check it out- Hook up
What’s with Weed
Strengthening Families for Parents and
Youth
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References
The Ontario Curriculum- Health and
Physical Activity
Ontario Student Drug Use and Health
Survey (OSDUHS) – CAMH 2010
Overview of Youth Substance Use and
Mental Health Problems - CAMH
Resiliency Canada
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ODAP and PAD
Joanne Brown
416-395-4970/1-877-265-9279
[email protected]
www.parentactionondrugs.org
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