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Title: ADDICTION


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Alcohol is a Drug.

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Alcoholism
Healthy Liver
Cirrhosis of the Liver
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Alcohol Advertising
  • Each year, a typical young person in the United
    States is inundated with more than 1,000
    commercials depicting alcohol as glamorous
  • Each year the liquor industry spends almost 2
    billion dollars on advertising and encouraging
    the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

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Advertising Effects
  • Each year students spend 5.5 billion on
    alcohol, more then they spend on soft drinks,
    tea, milk, juice, coffee, or books combined.
  • 56 of students in grade 5 to 12 say that
    alcohol advertising encourages them to drink.

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The First Drink
  • Confidence
  • Sedative or Energy
  • Euphoric Feeling
  • Possible Overdose
  • Lethal Alcohol Poisoning

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Irreparable Damage
Mush Brain
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  • ILLEGAL Prescription
  • DRUG USE

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How many Drug Addicts are there in America?
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NOT A DISEASE
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Drug Abuse leads to addiction, addiction leads
to death.
Chronic drug use is the inability to stop using
even when the addict wants to.
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Addicted persons experience a painful reaction
when they stop using mood-altering chemicals that
are Bio-Psycho-Social
  • --known as withdrawal--

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Inhalants
  • Who abuses inhalants?
  • The primary user group was composed of 12- to 17
    year olds.
  • Almost 17 million individuals have experimented
    with inhalants at some point in their lives.

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Short Term Affects
  • Most inhalants act directly on the central
    nervous system (CNS) to produce psychoactive, or
    mind-altering, effects.

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Coricidin
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What is Coricidin ?
  • Dextromethorphan (DXM), a synthetic drug
    chemically similar to morphine.

Acts as a cough suppressant When taken in
recommended dosages
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Coricidin Risk
  • Core users run a high risk of dying from
    respiratory depression.
  • Liver damage is also a dangerous side effect of
    Core.
  • Psychological damage yet undetermined.

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METH
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A Rural Phenomenon
  • 71 of the methamphetamine
  • offenders live in non-metro areas.
  • Their average age is 34, with nearly 41
  • percent falling between the ages of
  • 25 and 34.

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Faces of Meth
20 Months of Use
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Faces of Meth
3 Months
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Faces of Meth
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Faces of Meth
4 years
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Faces of Meth
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Faces of Meth
1985
1988
1988
1980
1980
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A Minnesota Menace
  • The number of Meth offenders in Minnesota
    State prisons has increased 390 since 2001.

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Methamphetamines
Thermal Imagery
Healthy Brain
Brain of Meth-User 4 months after quitting
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Meth Mouth
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Meth Mouth
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Cocaine Mouth Damage
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Innocent Victims
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Intravenous Drug Users
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Abscesses and Infection
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  • Defects of Birth Due to Drug Addicted Mothers
  • Graphic in Nature

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Birth Defects from Using Mothers
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Birth Defects, Baby has No Chance
  • Acute Cases of Birth Defects caused by Addicted
    Mothers

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Cutting
Cutting to Cope
 
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Addicts do Recover!
  • The recovery rates are very low
  • 33 6 Months
  • 17 1 year
  • 11 5 years to Life
  • Less than 2 of IV addicts recover

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Now What Do I Do?
  • It Starts with You
  • There Is Hope
  • Talk to a Friend whos Using About Finding Help
  • If its you, talk to recovering addict, or a
    pastor they can point you in the right direction.

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Thank you
  • This Presentation provided by
  • SET FREE Ministries
  • www.setfreemn.com

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