INTERCONNECTIONS CHART

Directions: Find 2 connections between the Center for Disease Controls health priority areas and your
health fair topic. Describe how your health fair topic relates to all the health priority areas (two facts for
each category).
YOU MUST CITE YOUR SOURCEBE SPECIFIC (Author, web site address, journal, magazine,
etc)

Use the bullets underneath each priority area as subtopics - if you are having difficulty
connecting to the Main Priority Area.
CDC Health Priority Area
How is the listed health priority area
connected to your topic? Cite your source
Tobacco use
Cigarettes soaked in embalming fluid
Nicotine
hit the headlines recently as a form of
Smoking
date rape drug.
Chew, snuff
Drug soaked tobacco or marijuana
Cigarette
have an instant effect of making the
victim temporarily confused.

Source: Quoted from :

http://www.guide4living.com/drugabuse/date-ra
pe-drugs.htm
Alcohol and other drug use
Date rape drugs involve illegal drugs
Drinking
such as benzodiazipines and
Alcoholism
gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
Drug addiction
Date rape drugs are often administered
All illegal drugs
to the victim through drinks and alcohol.
All medication

Source:Rishi Pal & Anil Kumar Teotia

Title: Date rape drugs and their forensic
analysis: An update
Journal:International Journal of Medical
Toxicology and Legal Medicine Vol. 12 No. 3
Behaviors that contribute to unintentional
Date rape drug users enact sexual
injuries and violence
violence and rape upon their victims.
Car accidents
Victims of rape as a result of date rape
Reckless behavior
drugs may inflict self harm upon
Homicide/murder
themselves because of what has
Self-harm behaviors
happened to them.
Gang violence/bullying

Source: Website:
https://www.k-state.edu/counseling/topics/alcoh
ol/date_rape_drugs.html
Unhealthy dietary behaviors
Sexual assault resulting from the usage
High fat/cholesterol diets
of date rape drugs may have negative
High sodium
effects of the victim mentally. In some
Eating disorders

Over eating/Binge eating

Inadequate physical activity

Sedentary
Inactive
Lack of exercise (exercise)
Physical activity

Sexual behaviors that may result in HIV

infection, other sexually transmitted diseases,
and unintended pregnancies
HIV/AIDS
STIs/STDs
Premature birth
Birth defects

cases, victims begin to eat more and

more as a way to cope.
In other cases, the victim may eat less,
causing eating disorders.
Source: Website:
http://www.aftersilence.org/eating-disorders.ph
p
Certain date rape drugs such as
Ketamine cause depression, which may
lead to sedentary and lack of physical
activity.
Many date rape drugs cause victims to
struggle with basic motor movements,
which prompt inactiveness for short
periods of time.
Source: Websit:
http://www.medicinenet.com/date_rape_drugs/
page2.htm
Sexual assault due to date rape drugs
increase unintended pregnancies.
Sexual assault also raises the chances of
a sexually transmitted disease such as
HIV/AIDS.
Source: Author: Joyce S Kuo
Title of article: HIV Prophylaxis in Sexual
Assault