Why is the risk card face down?
The risk card is face down because a person does not know all of the risk factors that help determine if a person becomes addicted. • What factors influence a person’s risk of becoming addicted to drugs? Many factors influence whether a person becomes addicted to drugs. Some of these include genetics, family influence, influence of friends, age at which drug abuse begins (a person who begins using drugs early in life is more likely to become addicted), context of drug use, and the development of coping skills. • What do the choice cards represent? Each choice card in this model represents an episode of drug use. Students likely will try to assign meaning to the numbers on the choice cards. For example, they may equate a 2 with drinking a low-alcohol beer and a 10 with heroin injection. These correlations are difficult to make with any accuracy. For example, a person may smoke a small amount of marijuana believing that it contains a low dose of THC. If that marijuana is of a potent stra
