Substance Abuse Awareness Worksheet
A Grade 9 Physical Education worksheet focusing on understanding the risks, prevention, and consequences of substance abuse.
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Substance Abuse Awareness Worksheet
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet aims to deepen your understanding of substance abuse and its impact.
1. Which of the following is NOT a common risk factor for substance abuse?
Family history of addiction
Strong self-esteem and coping skills
Peer pressure
Mental health disorders
2. What is the legal drinking age in most of the United States?
18
20
21
16
3. The misuse of prescription drugs, even if prescribed by a doctor, can lead to .
4. is a chronic, relapsing brain disease characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use despite harmful consequences.
5. Experimenting with drugs or alcohol once or twice is harmless and does not pose a risk of addiction.
True
False
6. Refusal skills are strategies that help individuals say no to peer pressure regarding substance use.
True
False
7. List three negative consequences of substance abuse on an individual's physical health.
8. Describe one effective strategy for resisting peer pressure to use substances.
Use the words below to complete the sentences.
9. When a person needs more and more of a substance to achieve the same effect, they have developed a .
10. Severe physical and psychological symptoms that occur when a person stops using a substance they are dependent on are called symptoms.