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Online Addiction Awareness: Recognizing, Preventing, and Overcoming

Explore the impact of online addictions on individuals' lives, including types of addictions like gaming, gambling, and social media. Learn to identify addiction signs, effects, and ways to combat it for a healthier lifestyle.

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Online Addiction Awareness: Recognizing, Preventing, and Overcoming

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  1. iHealth Curriculum Healthy Tech Choices: Avoiding Addiction, Part 1

  2. Key Concepts • Aspects of online life can be addictive • Addiction changes a person • Your life is better without addiction

  3. What kinds of online addictions have you seen? • Pornography • Compulsive surfing—esp. social media (texting, Facebook, YouTube) • Gaming • Gambling • Online shopping

  4. “What kind of cigarette do you smoke, doctor?” See a real life cigarette commercial from 50 years ago. Fight the New Drug™: http://vimeo.com/29493005

  5. Addiction Hurts: Test Yourself • Do I hide the behavior? Am I secretive about it? • Am I building a tolerance to the activity? Do I need more and more to have the same sensation? • Is this affecting other areas of my life? Has my school work or sleep suffered? • Do I need the activity to relax or improve my mood? • Have my relationships suffered? • What long term effects could this have on my physical, emotional, mental, social well being?

  6. 4 Ways Addicts Are Affected • Physically • Mentally • Emotionally • Socially • Because addiction impacts the judgment center of the brain, addicts may not recognize that they are impaired.

  7. Quick Response to Bad Stuff on Screen • Turn off the screen/close the lid (laptop). • Don’t try to exit. • Tell an adult.

  8. Violent Images and Aggression • Pornography and violent images change your brain. • Elementary students: kids who play more violent video games become: • more verbally aggressive • more physically aggressive • less helpful to others. (Anderson, Douglas, Buckley, 2007)

  9. Keep Current: Gaming

  10. Share What You Learn • Choose one: Poster Presentation • Bumper Sticker Video YOUR GREAT IDEA

  11. Fighter Facts Video Competition • Show contest intro video: http://www.fightthenewdrug.org/Blog/Blog-Detail/Matts-Story/ • Prizes: • iPod Touch • FTND Sweatshirt • FTND Belt Buckle

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