Leading a Substance Free Life: A Great Idea

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by Matthew Dyksen1 view·Updated Jun 19, 2021
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  1. Hi I'm matt.
  2. And then he talked about leading a substance for life.
  3. It's a great idea though.
  4. It is a very difficult but rewarding thing.
  5. There are many risks to using substances but they come
  6. in mainly three categories.
  7. There are effects on your community and there are short
  8. and long term effects on your person.
  9. Some short term effects with drugs are an altered brain
  10. chemistry which lead to a desired high um which are
  11. often followed by a crash into a low which are
  12. low is often significantly worse than high nicotine and tobacco.
  13. Your reward center is stimulated your heart rate, blood pressure,
  14. blood sugar and breathing rate, increase your lungs tighten and
  15. your flem increases with alcohol you can suffer from headaches,
  16. memory loss, unconsciousness, distorted vision and hearing, Slurred speech, decreased
  17. coordination and even vomiting.
  18. In terms of the long term effects with drugs you
  19. have an increased tolerance.
  20. You need more drugs to get the same high.
  21. You can become addicted to drugs as with nicotine and
  22. tobacco, nicotine, tobacco and alcohol.
  23. And there are other adverse health effects such as a
  24. lack of sleep or insomnia with methamphetamine, With nicotine, tobacco,
  25. you can have reduced lifespan possible.
  26. Type two diabetes, increased dental issues, COPD Um increased heart
  27. disease and stroke, cancer risks addiction and addiction, which comes
  28. with all three alcohol.
  29. You can, of course you get addicted suffer from liver
  30. damage, your kidneys can fail.
  31. Um your blood pressure can rise, you can get mouth
  32. cancer and your nerve and your brain can be damaged,
  33. which can lead to death.
  34. These are the effects on your community with drugs.
  35. There are rehab clinics, crime and crime and violence induced
  36. by drugs um with nicotine tobacco, there's death due to
  37. cancer, hospital costs and a financial and emotional cost to
  38. yourself, family and friends with alcohol because of course the
  39. alcohol induced violence and crimes.
  40. Um there are rehabilitation clinics and a financial and emotional
  41. cost to yourself.
  42. Family and friends.
  43. I'm going to go on to talk about why and
  44. how you should lead a substance free life.
  45. Why should you lose substance free life?
  46. Well after you quit tobacco, your blood pressure and blood
  47. and blood clots will drop.
  48. Your circulation will improve the health of your gums, teeth
  49. and skin will improve.
  50. Um your blood auction levels will return to normal and
  51. you will reduce the risk of infertility and pregnancy defects
  52. with alcohol.
  53. You reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, cancer and
  54. psychiatric issues.
  55. Um Your liver health can improve and with prescription and
  56. illegal drugs, you get many of the previous effects, along
  57. with um sometimes reversing of previous side of side effects
  58. from other drugs.
  59. And need to make sure to only take your prescription
  60. drugs as directed.
  61. How do you, how should you lead a substance for
  62. life? Make sure you know how to say no, make
  63. sure to stand tall.
  64. When you say no, maybe suggest another activity.
  65. Give a reason why you can't take the substance building
  66. healthy relationships.
  67. You want to be a role model to your friends,
  68. surround yourself with friends, the more stances um and build
  69. healthy relationships with parents or adults.
  70. You trust some alternatives or physical activity.
  71. May be watching a movie, a sober party, maybe with
  72. non alcoholic drinks, healthy snacks to be nicotine cravings and
  73. of course to reward yourself the difficult thing to live
  74. substance free.
  75. The solution you're gonna want to plan very heavily.
  76. Um You want to plan ahead, think what will happen
  77. if you say different things, develop strategies for different situations.
  78. I eat the no strategies from before.
  79. Implement those strategies when they are useful, continue utilizing these
  80. strategies and build a group of friends that respects your
  81. substance free lifestyle.
  82. The actions um living something like substance free life is
  83. not an easy task.
  84. Many barriers and pressures stand in the way of your
  85. goal. Barriers include pressure from friends, curiosity, the ease of
  86. saying yes and the difficulty of saying no feelings of
  87. guilt or judgment.
  88. I want to escape from your problems.
  89. Um stress, anxiety or any other mental issues saying no
  90. to friends can be difficult to make sure to stay
  91. strong and remember the tips for saying no when to
  92. get help.
  93. You should get help if you continue the use of
  94. the substance despite issues in your personal life.
  95. You utilize substances to escape problems.
  96. You try to quit a substance and experience withdrawal symptoms.
  97. You lose control, build up a tolerance for the substance
  98. or you take the substance soon after waking up or
  99. even overdose.
  100. How do you get help?
  101. You want to contact an addiction treatment center?
  102. Call an addiction hotline.
  103. Tell a trusted adult that you need help speak to
  104. a doctor or call Acquitting hotline.
  105. Here are some resources and activities.
  106. Um, here's a list of addiction hotlines in pennsylvania.
  107. There's teen hotlines, suicide prevention hotlines.
  108. Um, even some text text lines, quitting hotlines for smoking
  109. and with activities you can watch a movie, eat healthy
  110. foods to be nicotine cravings, drink non alcoholic drinks at
  111. parties, exercise, take a walk or even hang out with
  112. trusted friends or call the quitting hotline if you're having
  113. trouble. Thank you for watching my presentation.
  114. Here is a works cited page with all of the
  115. websites that I used.