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Chapter 13: Substance Abuse
Get Lippy shows off smoking stars…so not a good look!
Look at the images of these famous female smokers you may recognize. How do you feel about the smoking behaviors and beliefs of each of these women? Discuss how the image of female celebrities smoking, both in movies and their personal lives, may contribute to the female adolescent smoking. What could be done to discourage women from picking up the smoking habit?
Get Lippy
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The Alcohol-Related Disease Impact (ARDI) system. ARDI provides easy access to data measuring the impact of alcohol use on public health. Use the reports below to assess deaths and years of potential life lost due to alcohol use.
Use the ARDI to determine the alcohol-attributable deaths for the state you grew up in and the state in which you are attending college, for example. Compare these 2 numbers with the numbers for the U.S. and graph all 3 points. Repeat the exercise for Years of Potential Life Lost. Compare your numbers with those in your class. Discuss what this means and how measures to decrease alcohol abuse can affect the health of a state.
Centers for Disease Control: Alcohol
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NIDA offers links to sites that cover detailed information on certain drugs.
Visit one of the NIDA sites listed at the bottom of the page on a specific drug - marijuana-info.org, clubdrugs.gov, inhalants.drugabuse.gov - learn the facts, the statistics, and the health implications of abuse of the drug. Think about how society can tackle this drug abuse problem in teens. Provide specific suggestions for how schools, parents, and public health departments can encourage teens to stop using these drugs.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
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