SLU 125 Choosing Wellness: Substance Misuse

Explore problems, issues, and behaviors that affect optimum wellness.

Practice and reflect upon wellness-enhancing behaviors.

Use decision-making processes to improve wellness practices.

Topics:

Explain how alcohol is absorbed and metabolized

Describe the short and long-term physiological and psychological effects of alcohol 

Investigate the theories on addiction

List the major categories of commonly misused drugs

Investigate the statistical trends in substance use