1. Grade 8 | Unit 8.2 | Page 7
Unit 8.2
Transparency 1
Know your reasons
• Why do people engage in high-risk behaviour if they know that it is likely
that an accident or problems may be the result?
• Generally people get involved in a specific risky behaviour because it
gives them a thrill or makes them “feel good” - the reward.
• There are however many different reasons why people choose to do the
things they do.
• Applying the PRICE process when making decisions about risky behaviour
is not so much a matter of what to decide, but rather how to make
sensible decisions. It is a process that can be applied to a whole range of
risky situations.
• The first step in the PRICE process is to identify your purpose (or the
reasons) for choosing to get involved with the specific risky behaviour.
• Of course, when a person is seriously addicted to drink or drugs or
gambling, he or she no longer “chooses” to do so because it makes them
feel good. Many addicts say that they want to stop, but can't. The PRICE
decision-making process is for people who are voluntarily choosing to do
something risky, not for someone like an addict who no longer has the
ability to choose freely or who cannot control his or her own decision-
making processes anymore.