Choose one drug with abuse or addiction potential (e.g., alcohol, tobacco/nicotine products, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, etc.), and discuss: Adverse health effects associated with its use, Adverse social and interpersonal effects associated with its use, Available treatment/recovery options to halt substance abuse or relapse back to use.

 The Health Effects of Substance Use

Discussion Prompts:

Choose one drug with abuse or addiction potential (e.g., alcohol, tobacco/nicotine products, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, etc.), and discuss:

Adverse health effects associated with its use,
Adverse social and interpersonal effects associated with its use,
Available treatment/recovery options to halt substance abuse or relapse back to use.

Instructions:

Your responses should be based on the Week 8 readings, lectures, and other content.

Use college-level writing. Your original post must be a minimum of 400 words.
You MUST include reference material (either from the module and/or from SUITABLE external sources) AND provide BOTH appropriate in-text citations AND full-source citations at the bottom of the post in order to earn full credit for the discussion.