1. Drugs & The Brain

2. Do Now What is a “risk factor”?
What are some “risk factors” for drug use and abuse?

3. Risk Factors
Definition: anything that increases the likelihood of injury, disease, or other health problems.
Family status
Lack of supervision
Genetics
Drug availability
Aggressive behavior at an early age
Un-educated
Mental health issues
Social difficulties

4. Protective Factors
Definition: anything that keeps a person from engaging in harmful behavior
Self control
Self confidence
Parental monitoring
Doing well in school

5. WHY do individuals abuse drugs??
Curiosity
LOW Self-Esteem
Peer Pressure
Boredom
Alienation
Individuals that feel unwanted and unloved….
Some people believe drugs provide an outlet to their problems

6. Drugs & The Brain Your brain creates your *these are POWERFUL changes
Thoughts
Perceptions of the world
Personality
Physical responses
*these are POWERFUL
changes
Drugs that affect your
brain can change all of
these things.

7. How Drugs That Affect the Brain Work

8. If drugs that affect the brain in the previous ways are taken over a long period of time, they can create the powerful changes in feelings and behavior that lead to ADDICTION.
Addiction = a condition in which a person can no longer control his or her drug use.

9. “No one starts using drugs to become an addict
“No one starts using drugs to become an addict. But every addict starts as someone experimenting with drugs.”

10. The Pathway to Addiction
DRUG USE
TOLERANCE
DEPENDENCE
ADDICTION

11. Drug Use
Addicts move from experimentation to a more regular pattern of abuse
What does this look like?

12. Tolerance Develops after repeated drug use
The user needs more of the substance to get the same effect they had in the beginning
what does this look like?

13. Dependence Cannot function without the drug
physical dependence – the body relies on the drug in order to function “normally”
What does this look like?

14. Addiction Loss of control of their behavior
Addict becomes obsessed with
How to get drugs
How to take drugs
How to lie and steal to get them
Addict becomes paranoid
Use drugs to deal with emotional problems
What does this look like?
Withdrawal: uncomfortable physical and psychological symptoms produced when a physically dependent drug user stops using drugs

15. Treatments
Interventions
Rehab centers
Therapy

16. Classwork: Chapter 9; Section 3 Vocabulary Terms Section 3 Review:
Pg. 234
Questions 1-10