1. Week 13: May 9-13 Important Reminders How is your “A Better You” plan going? Due June 3 rd Grades were updated on Friday Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco unit continues this week.

2. Day 61: May 9 Objective: Identify and compare myths and facts about alcohol. Warm-up: Explain the difference between tolerance and reverse tolerance. Activities: ▫Alcohol: True or False

3. Alcohol: True or False?

4. True or False: Alcohol acts the same way in the teen brain as in an adult’s.

5. Answer False. Studies show that teen brains are not finished developing until their 20s. So what? Drinking while you’re a teen: ▫Interferes with memory, learning, thinking, maturity, social development and mental health ▫Gives you a much higher risk of having life- long alcohol problems and/or alcoholism.

6. True or False: If a BAC of.08 is the legal limit for driving adults, then that means a.06 driver is safe.

7. Answer False. Studies show that noticeable impairment begins in most people at about.025 and in all drivers at.04.

8. True or False: Most students try alcohol by 8 th grade.

9. Answer: False. The good news: More than 70% of 8 th graders have NOT tried alcohol. Source: HYS 2014

10. True or False: A shot of whiskey has more alcohol than a 12-ounce can or bottle of beer.

11. Answer: False. A 12-ounce beer, a 5-ounce glass of wine and a 1-1/2 ounce shot of 72-proof whiskey all have the same amount of alcohol. Bonus Fact: Wine coolers can have more alcohol than beer.

12. True or False: It takes about an hour to metabolize one drink.

13. Answer: False. This is kind of a trick question. This is about how long it takes for an adult. Because a teen’s body processes are not finished developing, studies show it takes teens an hour to metabolize ½ ounce of alcohol.

14. True or False: Alcohol makes you perform better sexually.

15. Answer: False. Although it may reduce inhibitions, it is a depressant, so enough alcohol will make it impossible to perform sexually.

16. True or False: It is possible to die from alcohol poisoning.

17. Answer: True. Your blood alcohol level can only go so high before you die. This is a MAJOR danger of binge drinking (more than 4 drinks for girls or 5 for guys in one sitting)

18. True or False: It is possible in the state of Washington to get charged with “Minor in possession” (MIP) if you are with someone who is drinking, but you don’t drink at all.

19. Answer: True. In Washington, it is illegal for teens to be with friends who are drinking.

20. True or False: Drinking coffee or taking a cold shower will get you sober.

21. Answer: False. Nothing will sober you up except time.

22. True or False: It is OK for a pregnant woman to drink as long as she doesn’t have more than one glass of wine a day.

23. Answer: False. There is no established safe amount for pregnant women to drink. Drinking can cause Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Fetal Alcohol Effects. The scary thing is that the biggest danger is in the first 3 months of pregnancy, when many women don’t even know they’re pregnant.

24. True or False: If you have a party at your house and someone gets in a crash after leaving, they and their insurance company are responsible for medical bills and damages.

25. Answer: False. While the driver will bear some of the responsibility, the owner or renter of the home where the party took place could lose everything.

26. True or False: If a teen drives drunk, the chances of getting into a crash are lower if he/she has other teens in the car.

27. Answer: False. The chances of a crash are higher.

28. True or False: Alcohol-related crashes are not very common, so you don’t really have to worry about it happening to you.

29. Answer: False. About 3 of 10 Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash (as driver or victim) at some point in their lives.

30. True or False: Most of the children under age 14 who are killed in drunk driving crashes are the victims of some crazy drunk who slammed into their cars.

31. Answer: False. 47% of children killed in alcohol-related crashes are IN THE VEHICLE with the drinking driver.

32. True or False: Most people drink regularly.

33. Answer: False. Most American drink lightly or not at all (80%).

34. True/False: Women tend to get drunk faster than men.

35. Answer: True. Less body weight, more body fat.

36. True or False: If you get stopped for drunk driving, you can use breath mints or mouthwash to cover the alcohol so you can pass a breathalyzer test.

37. Answer: False. Alcohol is absorbed into every cell, including your lungs, so you will be exhaling it in your breath.

38. True or False: Because alcohol is not a food, it has no calories.

39. Answer: False. Alcohol has 7 calories per gram. Still some people who are alcoholics lose weight because they are not getting nutritional needs met.

40. Day 62: May 10 Objective: Identify the myths vs. facts of alcohol. Warm-up: Why do you think there has been a rise in e-cigs, vapes and hookahs? Activities: ▫Alcohol True/False ▫The Truth About Drinking

41. True or False: Alcohol use does not lead to using other drugs.

42. Answer: False. More than 67% of people who start drinking before age 15 will try an illegal drug.

43. Becoming an alcoholic? How old you are when you take your first drink makes a difference…

45. The Truth About Drinking Reflect: How will you use the information you watched today to make future choices for yourself?

46. Day 63: May 11 Objective: Write and describe the consequences of smoking. Warm-up: What are some other myths/facts you have heard about alcohol? Activities: ▫Smoking Notes ▫Introduce Project  Sign-up ▫Logbook Check

47. Up In Smoke Smoking Facts and Stats

49. Did you know… About 440,000 Americans die of nicotine-related diseases (emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease) In fact, smoking kills more Americans each year than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide, suicide, car crashes, fires and AIDS combined. Smoking also causes impotence. 1 pack a day = 7 years of lost life. The good news is that the body recovers much of that time when a person quits. Cigarettes have a 30-minute half life.

50. Did you know… Nicotine decreases blood flow to the heart, while increasing blood pressure and heart rate. Smoking also hardens arteries so they cannot expand and contract normally. A person is 400 times more likely to drop dead while smoking if at chronic risk.

51. Did you know… Nicotine is a Class A carcinogen. It damages everything it comes in direct contact with (mouth, tongue, lungs, trachea, esophagus, stomach, bladder, prostate, etc.) There are 400 other carcinogens in cigarettes.

52. Day 64: May 12 Objective: Write and describe the consequences of smoking. Warm-up: What was one new thing you learned from the Alcohol T/F? Activities: SUB ▫Meth Video ▫Video- Smoking: Truth Or Dare  Worksheet

53. Day 65: May 13 Sub Drug Poster Work Time