Prime For Life - Pre/post test

Studies have found that most marijuana users failed a standard roadside sobriety test an hour and a half after their last occasion of use.

True. In a test where experienced marijuana users were allowed to smoke marijuana and given a standard roadside sobriety test by officers who did not know if they had actually used marijuana or not, 90% of the group who smoked the marijuana failed the test 90 minutes after smoking. Impairment from marijuana, like impairment from alcohol, may be hard for the user to recognize possibly due to increases in tolerance and decreases in sensitivity

People who are impulsive, gregarious, rebellious, and high sensation seekers have higher rates of alcoholism and addiction compared to those who don't have those personality traits.

True. People who are sensation seeking, gregarious, impulsive, and rebellious are more likely to develop alcoholism because personality traits often influence drinking choices and people with these personality traits tend to make higher-risk drinking choices than those without these traits.

Studies found those using marijuana more frequently at age 18 were more likely to become dependent by age 21.

True. Research found the risk for becoming dependent at age 21 was directly related to the frequency of use at age 18. The more frequent the use, the greater the risk of dependence three years later.

About 70% of drinkers in the U.S. make low-risk drinking choices most of the time.

True. Seventy percent (70%) of all drinkers in the U.S consume only 10% of all the alcohol consumed

Which of the following fits the 0-1-2-3 guidelines?

3 drinks on 4 days and 2 drinks on 1 day.

People in the Red Phase:

Can enter recovery and restore health by abstaining from alcohol and drugs.

Impairment problems:

Can occur in just one time of high-risk drinking or drug use.

The choices I make:

Determine if I develop alcoholism or addiction.

If people are drinking for fun, they are not likely to develop problems.

False. Why we drink is not as important as how much and how often we drink.

It is low risk for people to be impaired as long as they don't do it very often.

False. This moves people closer to their trigger levels and increases the risk for raising tolerance and experiencing health or impairment problems.

Impairment does not occur until a person drinks or uses to his/her physical tolerance level.

False. A person's mental tolerance level is the point where impairment begins and is always lower than the physical tolerance level. This means impairment begins before the physical tolerance level is reached.

Occasional impairment from drinking or using is not high risk.

False. Each time we become impaired, we risk having a problem like a DUI, injury, etc. We also experience an increase in tolerance each time we become impaired which, in turn, moves us closer to our trigger point and increases our risk for experiencing health and/or impairment problems.

Mental and physical tolerance levels increase at the same rate from high-risk choices.

False. Mental tolerance and physical tolerance both increase as a response to high-risk drinking, but physical tolerance levels rise higher and faster than mental tolerance.

To avoid all future alcohol and drug problems:

I can choose to always make low-risk choices

If I do not have family members with alcoholism or addiction:

I can develop alcoholism or addiction if I make enough high-risk choices to pass my trigger point.

High tolerance:

Is always a sign of increased risk.

Anyone can develop alcoholism or addiction if they:

Make enough high-risk choices to pass the trigger point.

Drivers who use marijuana:

Often drive differently than alcohol impaired drivers, but still have impaired driving skills.

People in the Orange Phase:

Probably have a significant increase in tolerance.

The only low-risk choice for people with alcoholism is abstinence.

True . Only total, continuous abstinence will interrupt the progression of alcoholism and maintain recovery. People in phase four cannot consistently make any other low-risk drinking choice.

Having a birth parent with alcoholism increases the risk for alcoholism.

True. It is the increased biological risk, not the experience of living with a parent who has alcoholism, that increases risk for developing alcoholism

Studies have found that marijuana is physically addictive.

True. Research indicates that loss of control and withdrawal occurs with marijuana use.

A person can avoid the progression into alcoholism or drug addiction by consistently making low risk choices.

True. By consistently making low-risk choices a person will not reach their trigger point.

Anyone who makes high-risk choices could develop alcoholism or addiction.

True. Everyone has some biological risk for developing alcoholism and addiction. It is the interaction of choices with a person's body-brain-biology that determines the outcome.

How much and how often a person drinks or uses is more important than why a person drinks or uses.

True. How much and how often we drink (quantity and frequency) determine how quickly our tolerance increases, which in turn influences our likelihood of developing problems from alcohol.