Gateway Drugs

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The ITMS Service-Learning Class presents
The ITMS Fall Film Festival Challenge
Be Strong, Live Long.Dont Do Drugs!
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Film Festival Theme Gateway Drugs

• Put on your directors hat and create a 3 minute
  public service announcement that emphasizes the
  dangers of gateway drugs (tobacco, alcohol,
  marijuana, inhalants or prescription drugs). Burn
  your video to disk and submit it to the ITMS
  Service Learning Class during 5th period in room
  125 or to Ms. Hausen in room 120 during homeroom
  by Friday, October 16th.

Festival Rules and Entry Forms are available in
the Service- Learning Room (125).
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The top ten videos will be highlighted during the
ITMS Fall Film Festival.Awards for Best Film,
Best Actor and Best Actress will be presented at
the festival.
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Gateway Drugs
Click the links below to view some samples of
Drug Awareness Public Service Announcements!
Your video must include the phrase, Be Strong,
Live Long Dont Do Drugs!
http//www.drugfreeworld.org//videos http//www.
abovetheinfluence.com/the-ads/
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Gateway Drugs

• Wrong Turn

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Gateway Drugs
What are Gateway Drugs? Some types of gateway
drugs include alcohol, marijuana, inhalants and
abuse of prescription drugs. They are called
gateway drugs because--for many drug addicts--
they were a gateway to the use of hard drugs
such as meth, heroin, and cocaine. Gateway
drugs cause a psychological dependence that
requires more of the drug to get the same effect
therefore, users often begin experimenting with
other drugs to achieve the same high.
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Gateway Drugs

• Gateway drugs can be accessed easily

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Gateway Drugs

• Elementary and middle school students are
• becoming more involved with gateway drugs.

• 1 in 4 teenagers smokes cigarettes.
• Every day, on average, 11,318 American youth try
  alcohol for the first time
• 7.2 of 14- to 15-year-olds report using
  marijuana in the past month. Thats an average of
  3 kids in every math class of 40 students. By the
  time these kids turn 16 and 17, that number will
  double.

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Gateway Dugs
Heathers Story At 13, I started drinking and
smoking pot and cigarettes. By 17, prescription
pill popping and alcohol were not enough. Friends
told me meth would do the trick. After the first
try, I wanted nothing else. I was invincibleI
stopped going to work, I got fired, I stopped
going home to my family, all to get high. With
nowhere to live and no job, meth was my only
concern. I started stealing and doing odd jobs to
get drugs. On the lowest day of my life, coming
down from a 3-day high, vomiting, dehydrated, and
sleep deprived, I was in desperate need of
medical attentionwith no one sober enough to
help me. That last high almost killed me.
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• Everybody else is doing it, why shouldnt I?

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Gateway Drugs

• It is illegal for you to use or possess alcohol,
  tobacco, and marijuana!

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Gateway Drugs

• Teen smokers have smaller lungs and a weaker
  heart than teen non-smokers. They also get sick
  more often than teens who don't smoke.

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• Children who are drinking alcohol by 7th grade
  are more likely to report academic problems,
  substance use, and delinquent behavior in both
  middle school and high school.

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• Persistent use of marijuana will damage lungs and
  airways and raise the risk of cancer. There is
  just as much exposure to cancer-causing chemicals
  from smoking one marijuana joint as smoking five
  tobacco cigarettes.

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• Marijuana use reduces learning ability. Research
  demonstrates clearly that marijuana limits the
  capacity to absorb and retain information.

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• Researchers believe that THC levels of marijuana
  have been on the rise since the '70s, meaning
  that pot may be stronger and more dangerous than
  ever before. Also, pot may be laced with crack
  cocaine or LSD.

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• The younger you start using any drug the more
  likely that it will become a problem.

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• The use of gateway drugs may lead to dangerous
  situations.

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Gateway Drugs

• When you start using a gateway drug, you are
  likely to try other drugs ones that may be more
  harmful, more addictive, and put you in more
  danger.

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Help us to spread the word about the dangers of
Gateway Drugs!

• Talk with your friends, family and teachers about
  the dangers associated with gateway drugs. You
  may save a life. It may be your own.

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The ITMS Fall Film Festival Challenge
Be Strong, Live Long.Dont Do Drugs!