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Addiction is characterized as a chronic disease involving the brain's reward system and impaired ability to control behaviors. Anyone can become addicted depending on risk factors like stress, family history, self-esteem, exposure to drugs, and mental illness. The spectrum of substance use ranges from abstinence to severe addiction. Drugs affect the brain stem, limbic system, and cortex to produce effects like depression, aggression, and impaired thinking. Teenage brains are still developing and vulnerable to long-term effects of drugs on memory, health, and life outcomes like poor academic or job performance and relationship issues. Tobacco and alcohol are the most commonly abused substances among youth and pose serious health risks. Avoiding drugs and smoking is important
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- 3. What is addiction? Chronic disease of brain reward circuitry Addiction is characterized by inability to consistently abstain, impairment in behavioural control, craving, diminished recognition of significant problems with one’s behaviours and interpersonal relationships, and a dysfunctional emotional response. Excerpt from American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) definition
- 4. Who becomes addicted? EVERYONE! Risk factors that are commonly seen: Stress Family history Self-esteem Exposure Trauma Mental illness – concurrent disorders
- 5. Spectrum of Substance Use The varying points of people’s use:
- 6. Description Marijuana Synthetic Marijuana Adderall Alcohol Vicodin Cough Medicine Tranquilizers Hallucinogens Sedatives Salvia Divinorum Oxycontin MDMA (Ecstasy) Tobacco Inhalants Cocaine Ritalin
- 7. Makes you addictive to it
- 8. Drug affects 3 main areas of our brain The brain stem – which affects our breathing, circulating blood and digesting food. The limbic stem – which controls our emotional responses. The cerebral cortex – which affects our ability to think, plan, solve problems and make decisions.
- 9. Effects on Central Nervous System. Depressants Marijuana Heroin Alcohol Tobacco Stimulants Crystal Meth Cocaine Ecstasy Hallucinogens LSD Magic Mushrooms
- 10. Brain and Body Teenage brain “ A work in progress “ Blackouts and memory lapses Liver disease
- 11. Drugs are a bet with your mind. Natasha’s story Age – 22 Started using drugs the age of 12-13. Started hanging out with kids much older than her. Peer pressure forced her to try other drugs too. She started using cocaine and cannabis at the age of 14.
- 12. her youth It started to affect her personal life She withdrew herself from her family. She became depressed and her aggression spiked. She isolated herself from the society. She shoplifted to fund her addictions.
- 13. When she realized… At the age of 18 years she realized that she had a serious problem. She admitted herself into YMCA Drug Program. She managed to stay away from drugs with sheer will power and support from her family. She was in the program for 6 months. She is now clean from drugs.
- 14. You drink them to fit in the society When you sufferred from something, mostly A love situation, you use it to calm your pain
- 15. Social and College Life Substance abuse and addiction can seriously affect one's life in college/school, at work, and in relationships. Poor college performance. Poor work performance. Relationship trouble. Personality changes.
- 16. A comparison
- 17. Marijuana (‘’cool drug’’) Also know as cannabis, pot, weed These plants have resin containing molecules known as cannabinoids Cannabinoids bind to cannabinoid receptors in your brain and other parts of your body, in particular the nervous and immune systems It tends to suppress hormones produced by stress reactions and stimulate an increase in dopamine in the brain which activates pleasure pathways
- 18. W.H.O If current trend continues, 250 million children alive today will be killed by tobacco. Youth is the time for experimentation. Tobacco, LSD, cocaine, Alcohol and Cannabis are the five most common drugs being abused by children in India. In India 20 million children a year and nearly 55,000 children a day are drawn into a tobacco addition. Children affected by substance abuse are considered as children in need of care and protection under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000.
- 19. Protect the future Generation
- 20. Conjecture The most widespread and harmful drugs heavily used by the youth is Tobacco and Alcohol. Drug dependence can be physical or psychological, or both.
- 21. Conjecture Worldwide, only two large and growing causes of death exist. One is HIV-1 infection, and the other is tobacco. However, there is no "safe" level of drug use. All drugs have the potential to cause harm, not just the illegal ones.
- 22. This is one of the very common problem at our age We have to avoid drinking and smoking because our health depends on our decision and probably our live too We don´t have to be convinced with bad people and ideas and if we know the are bad we shouldn´t have to be convinced
- 23. References complied from slides by Leanne Paisley Regional Opioid Intervention Service Addiction Counsellor Leanne.Paisley@theroyal.ca Sandiego teen therapist