https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/opi… After watching the documentary, “Opioids Inc.”, please answer the following prompts:
-Prescription pain pills (opioids) can be helpful when used as prescribed by a doctor. You often get them for severe pain, after a surgery or even when your wisdom teeth are removed. They come in many forms like Vicodin, Percocet, and Oxycontin.
-When do you think pain pills are okay and not okay to use? Please explain for both
-When we watch documentaries like this, it makes us think of people we know in our own communities. Do you think prescription drug misuse may be happening in your community? If yes, please explain who and why. If no, please explain why not?*
-If you found out that one of your family or friends was misusing a prescription drug, what would you do?
After watching the documentary, “Aging in the U.S.”, please answer the following prompts:
-What are some of the challenges of an aging population? Please explain including support for your answer.
-Ageism is defined as discrimination against older people because of negative and inaccurate stereotypes—and it’s so ingrained in our culture that we often don’t even notice. What can be done in society to fight ageism? Please explain in terms of health promotion and public health programs.
-In some cultures, they see “death” as part of life, and they all accept death as they move into life no matter what age they are or how they lived through life. What is your attitude or belief about death? aging? Please explain both including support for your answer.
Part 2:
-What is your opinion of teenagers experimenting with marijuana or any other drugs, including alcohol and tobacco? Please explain.*
-Should cigarettes be taxed by the government to cover their full cost to story? Please consider and explain. This could result in: less tobacco consumption, tobacco growers decreasing or losing their business, and drastically reducing tobacco companies’ profits.*
-Not matter their gender, race or ethnicity, people aged 18-25 have the highest incidence of drug and alcohol use. Why do you think this is? What do you recommend can be done to help address this? Please explain in detail.
-Please list all the health-related factors in your life that you think might play a role in how healthy you will be at age 70. Be sure to list 3, at the minimum:*
-Of the health-related factors you listed above, what current behaviors or lifestyle factors are worth changing to help ensure you will enjoy a healthy old age? Please explain.*
-Aging is partly determined by genes and partly determined by environmental factors. Do you have a history of disease in your family? If so, what? If not, what is prevalent amongst your family genes?*
-Do you live in an environment with factors that have you concerned for your current or future health? If so, what? Please explain; it may also be the environment your family or friends live in.
