Drug Education Final

58 important questions on Drug Education Final

10 Components of Whole School Community Child

community involvement, health ed, physical ed, nutrition, health services, counseling, social and emotional climate, physical environment, employee wellness, family engagement

Three elements of effective pedagogy:

curriculum, instruction (how we teach), classroom management

Identifies relevant external factors ( family, school, media), examines effect of external factors on personal health practices and behaviors, thoughts and feelings, personal health, health beliefs, and family health

Analyzing Influenced on Health Behavior
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Identifies trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health

Assessing Health Resources

Uses or interprets another persons use of space, time, movement, touch, eye contact, tone of voice, posture, facial expressions, and gestures.

Nonverbal Communication for health

Provides undivided attention, is aware of speakers nonverbal communication, appropriately provides verbal and non verbal feedback, maintains eye contact

Listening skills for Health

Appreciates self and others, expresses needs, wants, and feelings in healthy ways, assumes responsibility for own needs, wants, feelings and behaviors.

Assertive Communication for Health

Makes a clear refusal statement

Refusal skills for Heath

Acknowledges that a conflict exists; in threatening situations, leaves and gets help; remains in control and does not escalate the conflict; listens to the other person and tries to see the situation from their point of view

Conflict Resolution for Health

Selects appropriate situations, makes requests in an assertive manner or offers assistance in a clear and supportive manner

Skills to request and offer help

Identifies situations which require a personal or collective health-related decision, identifies barriers to healthy decision making

Decision making for health

Goal statement is personalized, the goal statement includes a short term goal, and a long team goal

Goal setting for health

Makes requests to enhance personal health, encourages others to make positive health choices, acts with conviction and is persuasive, has a clear message

Advocacy for health

A chronic, relapsing diseases characterized by compulsive drug-seeking and abuse by long-lasting chemical changes in the brain

Addiction

The repeated use of illegal drugs or the inappropriate use of legal drugs to produce pleasure, to alleviate stress, and/or to alter or avoid reality

Drug Abuse

The use of prescribed drugs in great amounts than, or for purposes other than those prescribed by a physician or dentist

Drug misuse

Defined as the presence of a consistent set of symptoms when use of a drop is stopped. These symptoms imply that the homeostatic mechanism of the body has made adjustments to counteract the drugs effects and without the drug the system is thrown out balance

Physical dependence

Behavioral dependence; indicated by high rate of drug use, craving for the drug, and a tendency to relapse after stopping use

psychological dependence

A condition in which higher doses of a drug are required to produce the same effect as during initial use

Tolerance

Symptoms that occur after chronic use of a drug is stopped or reduced

Withdrawal

A network of tightly packed cells in the walls of capillaries in the brain that prevent many molecules, including poisons from entering the brain

Blood brain barrier

A neuro transmitter founding regions of the brain that regulate movement, emotion, motivation, and pleasure

Dopamine

A dose of a drug that produces a certain effect in one percentage of the subjects

Effective dose

The process of keeping the internal environment of the body stable by making adjustments to changes in the external environemnt

Homeostasis

The point when increases in the amount of the drug do not increase the drugs therapeutic effect and primarily adds to the number and/or severity of its side effects

Maximum therapeutic dose

The process by which the body breaks things down or alters them so they can be eliminated

Metabolism

Measured by the amount of drug required to produce a given effect

Potency

A brain circus that, when activated, reinforces behaviors

Reward system

A neuro transmitter that regulates many functions, including mood, appetite, and sensory perception

Serotonin

Unintended drug effect that accompany the desired therapeutic effect

Side effects

An agent that causes insensitivity to pain

Anesthetic

Reducing the local swelling, inflammation, and soreness caused by injury or infection

Anti-Inflammatory

Drugs used to even out mood swings

Antimanic

Drugs used to reduce hallucinations and paranoid thoughts

Antipsychotic

Cough reducing drugs

Antitussive

Drugs used in the treatment of anxiety disorders

Anxiolytic

A drug that shrinks the swollen membranes in the nose and makes it easier to breathe

Decongestant

Medication that helps bring up mucus and other material from the lungs, bronchi, and trachea

Expectorant

Drugs used to relax, calm, or tranquilize

Sedative

Chemical that help control mental and physical process when produced naturally  by the body and produce intoxication and other effects when absorbed from marijuana

Cannabinoids

A class of drugs that evaluates moods, increases feelings of wellbeing, and increases energy and alertness

Stimulants

Drugs that relieve anxiety and produce sleep

Depressants

Any group of usually synthetic hormones that are derivatives of testosterone

Anabolic steroids

A diverse group of drugs that after perceptions, thoughts, and feelings

Hallucinogins

Drugs which distort perfections of sight and sound and produce feelings of detachment from the environment and self

Dissociatives

Ant drug administered by breathing in its vapors

Inhalants

Amphetamine, methamphetamine, cocaine, nicotine, caffine

stimulants

Amyl and butyl nitrate, nitrous oxide

inhalants

Hashish, marijuana, THC

Cannabinoids

Increased alertness, attention, energy, increased blood pressure, heart rate; narrowed blood vessels; increased blood sugar; opened-up breathing passages; high doses-dangerously high body temp and irregular heartbeat, heart failure, seizures

stimulants

Feelings of being separate from ones body and environment; impaired motor function;anxiety, tremors, numbness, memory loss, nausea

Dissociative

Reduced inhibitions, slurred speech, motor impairment, confusion, memory problems, concentration problems, coma, breathing problems, injuries, violence, risky sexual behaviors, death

alcohol

In some individuals, dramatic mood swings, increased feelings of hostility, impaired judgment, headache, acne, fluid retention, oily skin, yellowing of the skin and whites of eyes

steroids

Enhanced sensory perception and euphoria followed by drowsiness/relaxation; slowed reaction time; problems with balance, coordination; increased heart rate appetite; problems with learning memory, hallucinations; anxiety; panic attacks; psychosis

cannabinoids

Pain relief, drowsiness, nausea, constipation, euphoria, CONFUSION, SLOWED BREATHING, DEATH

opioids

Perceptual distortions that vary with dose, setting, and mood; elevated heart rate and increased blood pressure, dilated pupils

hallucinogins

Confusion, nausea, slurred speech, lack or coordination, euphoria, dizziness, drowsiness, disinhibition, lightheadedness, hallucinations, headaches; deaths due to heart failure, asphyxiation, suffocation, coma

inhalants

Drowsiness, slurred speech, poor concentration, confusion, dixxiness, problems with moment and memory, lowered blood pressure, slowed breathing

depressants

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