Mental Health: Addiction

(This was an oral report; what you see here is reproduced from my poster.)

The standards I chose for this assignment are:

• Maintaining health and well-being
• Disease prevention
• Avoiding risky behaviors
• Promoting family health
• Informed use of health related information

I chose this topic because there are a lot of addictions in the world.

Some Kinds of Addiction

Steroids are addicting because people know that it can make them strong

People drink alcohol to try and act "cool" and get addicted to it

Gambling is unhealthy because it takes over your mind.

Addictions are serious

Addictions waste money

Addictions break up families

Addictions are deadly