Protect Your Game

Protect Your Game

Aimed at youth athletes that promote healthy decision-making on and off the field. It highlights how substance use can negatively impact performance, scholarship opportunities, and lifelong goals.
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Physical impacts of ALCOHOL use:

  • Weekly alcohol use doubles the rate of injury
  • Interferes with metabolism
  • Slows recovery
  • Interrupts sleep
  • Reduces Endurance

Increases Injury – 54.8% of athletes who drink alcohol during the week suffer an injury.

Physical impacts of NICOTINE use:

  • Makes an athlete weaker and more prone to injury
  • Slows recovery
  • Reduces endurance
  • Damages the heart and lungs
  • Negatively affects blood and breathing functions

Highest addication rate of all drugs – 85% of nicotine users have a use disorder.

Neurological impacts of MARIJUANA/THC use:

  • Dull reaction time
  • Reduces hand/type coordination
  • Impairs facial recognition
  • Reduces balance and tracking ability
  • Reduces memory recall and impact of all training

Brain Heath is Athlete Health. THC alters MEMORY, MOVEMENT and MOTIVATION.