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Rediscover Empowering Ways to Inspire New Directions

2017

Kristen Polin, VP of Programs Shane Watson, Prevention Specialist Kelli York, Resource Director

notMYkid Introductions

Class expectations

Why Are You Here?

Prevention Programs Founded in 2000 as a 501(c)3 non-profit

notMYkid inspires positive life choices by educating Faculty Parents Youth On six topics concerning the destructive decisions our kids will face today

Substance Abuse Depression

Body Image

Digital Behavior

Unhealthy Relationships Bullying

Project REWIND- Session One 

Understanding the Influence  AZ

Youth Trends & The Digital Connection  Risks & Onset of Use  The Progression of Addiction    

BREAK- 7pm Shane’s Story & Discussion Review of Take-Home Questionnaire Wrap Up- 8pm

For Parents

What are the common drugs of abuse and consequences of their misuse?

What is the prevalence of drug use among Arizona youth? How can I have open and honest dialogue about drug use with my family?

What are specific strategies for addressing and preventing drug and alcohol use?

For Teens

• Understanding the risks that come with drugs use along with their unintended consequences.

• How culture and social media is shaping personal beliefs about substance abuse • Disconnect to reconnect. Exploring ways to have open and honest dialogue with your family and support network.

• Identify specific strategies for overcoming peer pressure and making healthy decisions that will positively impact your future.

Can You Imagine? • • • • • •

That won’t happen to ME. I know my limits and what I can and can’t handle. All high school kids do it… It’s a rite of passage. It’s all natural. No harm in what I’m doing. I would NEVER do hard drugs like Heroin and Cocaine. • That won’t happen to MY kid.

First Use for Addicts What percentage of addicts begin smoking, drinking, or using drugs before age 18? 10-20%

30-50%

60-80%

90%

9 smoking, 10 drinking or out of

addicts started

using drugs before the age of 18 - Columbia University, Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse

Why do kids use drugs? PEER CONTEXT

SOCIAL PRESSURE/ CULTURAL INFLUENCE

SCHOOL CULTURE

FAMILY DYNAMIC

Perception vs. Reality What percentage of parents believe their child would use drugs to cope with stress? < 10%

20 – 40%

50 – 60%

7%

> 70%

of parents believe their child would use drugs to cope with stress

- Columbia University, Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse

Perception vs. Reality What percentage of kids who use drugs attribute the use to coping with stress? < 10%

7%

20 – 40%

of parents believe their child would use drugs to cope with stress

50 – 60%

73%

> 70%

of substance abusing kids attribute their use to stress

- Columbia University, Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse

Arizona Is: Second ininin the nation for high Eighth 10th in the the nation nation for for First the nation for school students who were high highschool school students students who who offered, sold, or given an illegal havehave used used methamphetamines inhalants have used cocaine drug on school property

2015 CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance

First Use What is the average age that kids begin experimenting with drugs and/or alcohol? 8 - 10

11 - 13

14 - 16

17 - 19

11-13

Years old

and can hide use for an average of 2 years - Columbia University, Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse

The Digital Connection

• 97% of teens use the internet

• 73% use social networking • 25% pretend to be older than they are

• 29% of parents allow unrestricted use of the internet

ONLINE Opportunities for Teen Drug Exposure

More than $25 billion per year is spent on advertising for tobacco, alcohol, and prescription drugs. Teenagers see considerable alcohol and drug content in online videos and on social networking sites.

40% of profiles reference substance abuse. 1.Strasburger VC . “Clueless”: why do pediatricians underestimate the influence of the media on children and adolescents? Pediatrics. 2006;117(4):1427–1431

Alcohol By Graduation

Children who drink before the age of 15 are five times more likely to struggle with addiction later in life.

2/3 of High School Students are Regular Drinkers

90%

of teen drinking is binge drinking

- SAMSHA

Alcohol in Media and Social Media

“Teens who remember “Most young people willseeing have the ads and liking them were seen approximately more likely toalcohol begin drinking or 100,000 ads become binge drinkers if they by the time they turn 18.” had already begun drinking.” - Cued Recall of -Alcohol Advertising on Television Children, Adolescents, and the and Underage Drinking Behavior (JAMA Pediatrics) Media: Issues and Solutions. Federal Trade Commission

JUUL

Vape Pens & E-Cigs •

Designed as a harm-reduction tool to help smokers quit smoking cigarettes

•

Use a battery-powered atomizer to heat “E-liquid” or “E-juice” and create inhalable vapor

•

Liquid is available in a wide variety of flavors

•

Can make drug use and related smells easier to conceal

L to R: Electronic Cigarettes(“E-Cigs”), Vape Pens, Modified Vape Pens (“Mods”)

Vape pens can be used to consume substances ranging from hash oil to amphetamines, spice, and bath salts

Teens who vape are 6x more likely to go on to smoke cigarettes “E-Cigarettes and Future Cigarette Use” Jessica L. Barrington-Trimis, Robert Urman, Kiros Berhane, Jennifer B. Unger, Tess Boley Cruz, Mary Ann Pentz, Jonathan M. Samet, Adam M. Leventhal, Rob McConnell – University of Southern California

Kids are successful in buying ecigarettes online 94% of the time “Electronic Cigarette Sales to Minors via the Internet” Rebecca S. Williams, MHS, PhD; Jason Derrick, MSW Kurt M. Ribisl, PhD – JAMA Pediatrics

24% of high school students reported using during the past 30 days. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey

Teen use in the U.S. tripled between 2013 and 2014 CDC National Youth Tobacco Survey U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products

How the

E-cigarette Industry Borrowed a Page From the

Tobacco Industry Playbook National Committee on Energy and Commerce - Henry Waxman (Calif.), Diana DeGette (Co.), and Frank Pallone, Jr. (N.J.)

Masculinity – The Tough Guy

1958

2013

Leisure and Lifestyle

1964

2013

Sex Appeal

1930

2012

Nightlife and Romance

1933

2012

Celebrity Endorsement

1951

2012

The Adventurous Woman

1938

2013

Highlighting Innovation

1957

2013

Brand Mascots

Then

Now

Racecar Ads

Then

Now

Fruit and Other Flavors

Tobacco

E-cigarettes

Today’s Marijuana

Budder

Edibles

Shatter/Wax

Hash Oil

Marijuana Psychologically Addictive

Gateway Drug Increased THC Levels

Persistent cannabis use accounts for:

7-8 point drop in IQ

Impaired cognition and increases the risk for psychiatric diseases

Increased drop out rate from High School Lower relationship and life satisfaction - Madeline H. Meier, Avshalom Caspi, ‌ Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline from childhood to midlife - Sylvina M Raver, Sarah P Haughwout and Asaf Keller, Adolescent Cannabinoid Exposure Permanently Suppresses Cortical Oscillations in Adult Mice - Fergusson, D.M., and Boden, J.M. Cannabis use and later life outcomes.

Rx O

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Ox ycodone

Rx

Teens receive prescription

drugs from friends and/or relatives

O

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Fentanyl

D

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Hydrocodone

CNS DEPRESSANTS Klonopin

Valium

X a n a x

S T I M U L A N T S Amphetamine

Ritalin

Adderall

Prescription drugs are the most commonly abused by Since 2003, prescription painkillers have resulted in substance more overdose 12th graders cigarettes deaths after than alcohol, cocaine marijuana, and heroin and combined - National Institute on Drug Abuse Abuse, Monitoring the Future

Rx During an average 30-day period in Arizona...

More than

78.9% 1/3

of youth youth abusing abusing prescription prescription drugs drugs of are combining themfrom withfriends, alcohol or report getting them mixingor prescription family, right out ofnarcotics the home with prescription sedatives Arizona Criminal Justice Commission

Synthetic Drugs

Spice

Bath Salts

N-BOMB

Designed to simulate effects of marijuana

Designed to simulate effects of Meth and Cocaine

Designed to simulate effects of LSD

10-100 times more potent than marijuana

Recent studies have shown drug to be more dangerous than Methamphetamines

Has led to at least 17 deaths across the United States

2015: Spike in spicerelated ER visits

Synthetic Drugs

Spice Designed to simulate effects of marijuana 10-100 times more potent than marijuana 2015: Spike in spicerelated ER visits

Bath Salts

Designed to simulate effects of Meth and Cocaine Recent studies have shown drug to be more dangerous than Methamphetamines

N-BOMB Designed to simulate effects of LSD

Has led to at least 17 deaths across the United States

MDMA / Molly Vitamin E

R o l l

Slang Terms X

Molly

Ecstasy

7.2%

Of 12th graders have admitted to using MDMA

Releases large amounts of serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine – producing emotional and pro-social effects Serotonin releases hormones that play important roles in love and sexual arousal Extensive use of MDMA can cause: Long lasting confusion Depression Memory impairment - National Institute on Drug Abuse, Monitoring the Future

Shane’s Story

What Do You Want Your Story to Be? Take Home Assignment  Parents What

are your fears for your child- be specific.  What do you love most about your child?  What do you want their story to be 5 years from now? How about 10 years from now?  Teens What

are your hopes for your future- be specific.  What do you love most about your mom or dad?  Look ahead- What will your story be 5 years from now?

Addiction C

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GABA SEROTONIN DOPAMINE ACETYLCHOLINE NOREPINEPHRINE EPINEPHRINE

FEELING GREAT

FEELING DEPRESSED

Addiction DRUGS ALCOHOL GABA SEROTONIN DOPAMINE ACETYLCHOLINE NOREPINEPHRINE EPINEPHRINE

FEELING GREAT

FEELING DEPRESSED

Addiction Defined 

Chronic/Progressive/Fatal/Treatable Addiction is a condition in which a person develops biopsycho-social dependence on any mood-altering substance. Addiction is a brain disease that is expressed in the form of compulsive behavior. Addiction is distinguished from drug use by the lack of freedom of choice. Source: Gorski, Terrence, Merlene Miller. Staying Sober. 39.

Brain Development

Planning Right from wrong Impulse control Anticipating risk Self-control An individual’s brain is not fully developed until

21-25 years of age

Signs of Drug Use or Typical Teen Age Behavior?  A drop in grades

 Red, watery, or glassy eyes

 Isolates from family

 Uses eye drops to hide red eyes

 Poor achievement

 Late or unexplained hours

 Moods are up and down

 Rejection of parental values

 Dishonest about whereabouts

 Have found unexplained paraphernalia

 Dishonest about a lot of things  Early cigarette smoking  Change in peer groups  Often draws pot leaves, drugs, or drug symbols  Parental defiance

 Disappearance of money or possessions

 Defensive about drug use  Antisocial behavior  Loss of interest in previous hobbies and activities

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