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Explore the positive impact of sports on self-esteem, stress management, and academic performance, and how they can prevent substance use issues. Learn about the role of team sports in fostering positive behaviors and relationships. Discover insights on the association between sports and substance advertising. Delve into the nuances of sport as a preventative strategy and the essential components for effective substance abuse prevention. Engage in an interactive discussion to understand the multifaceted benefits sports offer in combating substance use problems.
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Session 4 Sport and the prevention of substance use problems
Benefits associated with sports • W Brettschnneider, 1999 • Strong evidence that competitive sport results in more positive self esteem; • Found in physical, social and intellectual realms; • Greater resistance to stress.
Benefits associated with sports • Page et al., 1998 surveyed 12,000 high school students (Gr. 9-12) • No difference with non-athletes re drinking and binge drinking; • Significantly less likely to have ever used tobacco, cannabis, cocaine (M/F); • Increased risk for steroid use and smokeless tobacco use (M); • Participation in school sports increases opportunities to bond in positive way with peers and school.
Benefits associated with sports • Bush, L, 2001 surveyed 400 inner city young teens (Gr. 7). Those that participated in coached team sports: • Had stronger self esteem (M/F); • Didn’t show any more aggression; • Used less cannabis (13 yr old M). • Conclusion: generally team sports meant positive behaviours; need to be concerned with the very small number of girls playing organized sport.
Summary on benefits associated with sports • Better self –esteem; • More resistance to stress; • Better academic performance; • Better relationships with family.
When sport is not preventative • J Leichliter, 1998 surveyed 51,000 US college students: • Athletes drank more per week (7.8 vs. 4.1 drinks); • More likely to binge drink (54% of athletes vs. 36% non); • Team leaders drank more, more problems; • Same for female athletes. • Conclusion: athletes work hard, play hard; feel they are indestructible.
Sport is associated with advertising of licit substances • Sport is NOT associated with lower use rates with regard to alcohol and smokeless tobacco. • Both substances are marketed through sports events and professional athletes.
When sport is not preventative • T Crabb, 2000 • “Soccer for too many young people in the UK is part of a whole weekend leisure culture - where the boundaries between sporting activity, deviance and drug use become blurred or even completely dissolved.”
When sport is not preventative • T Crabb, 2000 (continued) • “What makes sport attractive to many youth is the uncertainly, unpredictability, threat, fear and anxiety that go with it.” • Conclusion: for this reason, games may quickly lose their charm if they are forced into the service of education, character development or social improvement.
Therefore … • Participation in sport activities is not preventive on its own. • Still, sport activities have been used successfully as a substance abuse prevention strategy. • What are the necessary elements? • Let us discuss together!!!
