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Lifestyle and

Risk-Taking Behavior
Edgel May C. Bayag, M.D.
Lifestyle
• Forms of activities in a man’s life that are typical
for a certain society
• Based on prevailing objective conditions
• Mediating structures which reflect a whole range
of social values, attitudes and activities

• Choice of behavior may be promotive of, or
detrimental to health
Risk-Taking Behavior
• Behavior that is detrimental to one’s health and
life

• Young people love taking risks
• Taking risks is a natural part of growing up
• Provides a young person with a sense of
“adultness”
Risk-Taking Behavior
• Some take risks to gain friends or sexual
experience

• Offer a means of escape from resolution of
personal conflicts

• Benefits are short term while harm done can be
lasting
8 HEALTH RISKS
OF YOUNG PEOPLE
Smoking
Addiction
Physical Activities &Exercise
Endangering traffic behavior Video Clip
Eating Habits
Interpersonal Relations
Sexual Behaviors
Health Risks of Young People
• Smoking
• Alcohol consumption and
related problems
• Addiction
• Physical activities and
exercise
• Endangering traffic
behavior
• Eating habits
• Interpersonal relations
• Sexual behaviors
Substance Abuse
Substance Abuse
• used to replace the terms, alcohol abuse and drug
abuse
• refers to excessive use of drugs or alcohol which is
inconsistent with acceptable practice, medically or
socially
• usually results in a failure to fulfill major role
obligations at home, school or work, or in
recurrent legal problems
• substance use is continued even when it is physically
hazardous or despite having persistent or recurrent
social or interpersonal problems caused or
exacerbated by the effects of the substance

Tolerance
• manifests as decline in effect with continued use
of the same amount of the substance

• leads to a need for markedly increased amounts
of the substance to achieve the desired effect

Physiological Dependence
▫ characterized by the presence of tolerance and
the appearance of withdrawal symptoms when
use of the substance is stopped

▫ can be explained by neuroadaptive changes that
follow intake of many drugs including anti-
depressants and beta-adrenergic receptor
antagonists

Dependence As a Behavioral Syndrome
▫ characterized by a person’s compulsion to take a
substance (continuously or periodically) in
order to experience its psychic effects or to
avoid the discomfort of its absence

Statistics of Mortality
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