D. A. R. E. Decision Making Model

“’ Were seeing kids coming in with blood alcohol see levels in the mid-.3s, even .4, which four to five times the legal limit for driving. That’s the level at which 50% of people die,”’ says Dr. Mary Claire O’ Brien, an emergency medicine physician and associate professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Underage drinking has become an issue in young teens. Teens are drinking large amounts of alcohol in short periods of time. The effects of alcohol in adolescents are much more life threating then an adult. In the article “The Underage Drinking “, Emily Listfield acknowledges that binge drinking is common in adolescents, it causes long term effects, physical injury and death.

According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Many young people are facing the consequences of excessive drinking, at a too early age. Because of this issue, underage drinking is a leading public health problem. Each year, approximately 5,000 young people under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking including about 1,900 deaths from motor vehicle crashes, 1,600 as a result of homicides, 300 from suicide, as well as hundreds from other injuries such as falls, burns, and drownings (1–5).

Bullying is really bad and seen all over the place and everywhere. Now here are the five W’s of reporting bullying.There’s Who, What, When, Where, And Why. Who is the first one you say who is involved and who started it. What is the next one you say what happened like for example being bullied is one to report. Now is when this one is about what time it happened and where. The last one is why, like for example if i was jealous of Jade i would probably be mean to her but we are friends and we care about each other. Why is how you say like why is Veronica being mean to Jade because she wants to be friends with her and hang out. These are the five W's of reporting bullying. Here are the ways to report bullying and maybe stop bullying.

Cigarettes now a days have a many different chemicals in them. A 100 years ago cigarettes only had tobacco in them which made them less harmless. Now there are 4,000 chemicals put into cigarettes. There are 43 known cancer causing compounds and over 400 toxins (quit smoking support). That's why smoking cigarettes leads many Americans to getting cancer.

There are more than 200 known chemicals in cigarettes. Cigarettes contain nicotine a powerful substance that causes addiction. About 40,000 Americans die from tobacco related causes each year. Smokers have more colds and upper respiratory problems. Smoking can cause yellow teeth and smelly breath.

What is D.A.R.E. class? DARE is a class we have been in for the last couple weeks. It is taught by Deputy Morris. DARE stands for drug abuse resistance education. A DDMM is a DARE decision making model. The DDMM says to define, assess, respond, evaluate. Those are the main parts of DARE.

Recent studies show that approximately fifty-three percent of adults in the United States have one or more close relatives that have drinking problems. Alcohol Abuse has cost the United States more than 220 billion dollars in 2005 alone. Problem drinkers are most often found in young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 years old, and the fewest in adults who are 65 years of age or older. Alcohol Abuse is one of the major risk factors for violence, and research shows that fifty percent of all homicides and forty percent of all assaults in the United States are alcohol related. In the United States, more than forty percent of the people who start drinking when they are fourteen years old or younger are more likely to become alcoholics than those who don’t. One in ten Americans, currently have alcohol problems.

Today, in the United States, alcohol is for many teenagers like opening Pandora’s Box, and “it ranks as the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States” (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse). Therefore, it is a very serious issue and is not that easy to act

There are approximately 4,000-7,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke. Chemicals included are: nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, acetone, benzene, butane, Cadmium and DDT. The chemicals previously listed are typically found within nail polish remover, hair dye, rat poison, rubber cement, active ingredients in battery acid, embalming fluid, and materials for paving roads. Forty-three of the chemicals within a cigarette are known cancer-causing compounds, and over 400 other toxins. In addition, depending on the type of cigarette that is smoked, the effects could be even more harmful to one’s body by containing more additives and chemicals than others (Kleinman, L., M.D., & D. M., M.P.H., 2016).

). “According to the 2014 Surgeon General’s Report, there have been more than 20 million smoking-related deaths in the United States since 1964; 2.5 million of those deaths were among non-smokers who died from exposure to secondhand smoke.” (American Cancer Society, 2015).

Educating a seven or eight year old the different between tattling and appropriate reporting is a very difficult task. When attempting to get children to understand that a tattletale is someone who reports over and over again another person’s wrongdoings that may or may not involve the tattler and no one is being hurt. During the first week of school I have my students help create the rules for our classroom, rules for the cafeteria and the playground. For each rule we also discuss if it is broken should the student talk to the student breaking the rule or should an adult be involved to help solve the problem. This at least sets the basis for my students to begin to differentiate between tattling and appropriate reporting. Throughout the

It is very scary that a known fatal substance is so readily available in today’s society. A lot of people like to relax with a drink of alcohol; however, it can cause many serious problems for others who start to become dependent on it.

Alcohol is one of many dangerous substances that effects our bodies. The effects of this drug can be very harmful. Alcohol is a potent non-prescription drug sold to anyone over the national legal drinking age, 21. Unlike other deadly drugs it is easy to access. This makes it easy to over-consume and create a tragic accident, even death. It can damage a person not only physically but also mentally and emotionally. Many people each year become more and more addicted to alcohol and soon experience all of it?s dangerous effects. Even if alcohol use is discontinued, some of these damages can not be cured, because the scars have been left on those that drink and those that surround them. The only hope

Another huge tobacco-related health problem is secondhand smoke. It is known to cause approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths and 35,000 heart disease deaths in nonsmokers each year. By definition it is a mixture of smoke given off by the burning end of tobacco products and the smoke exhaled by smokers. Secondhand smoke contains over 4,000

"Environmental tobacco smoke-the secondhand cigarette smoke breathed by nonsmokers is a known carcinogen and the most dangerous environmental pollutant."(Waxman 1995) Surprisingly secondhand smoke causes as many deaths as the tobacco smokers do. "Most people die from secondhand smoke each year than from car accidents."(Waxman 1995) There are a lot of reasons that causes the deaths from secondhand smoke. "Lung cancer is the best known risk from secondhand smoke."(Wilson 1997)