Intoxication and Withdrawal
Withdrawal from this substance can lead to depression, insomnia, tearing, runny nose, sweating, diarrhea, nausea/vomiting, and muscle aches.
What are Opioids?
xThis drug is the leading preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. It is a contributory cause of about one-third of all cancers, and 90% of lung cancers.
What is tobacco?
Group of symptoms that occurs upon the abrupt discontinuation/separation or a decrease in dosage of the intake of medications, recreational drugs and/or alcohol.
What is withdrawal?
This medication, often used to reverse the effects of opiate overdose, can also be used to reduce alcohol craving.
Naltrexone?
Intoxication with this substance causes drowsiness, nausea/vomiting, constipation, contricted pupils and respiratory depression which can lead to death in overdose
Opioids
xAbrupt abstinence after chronic use of this drug can be life threatening purely from symptoms of the withdrawal: cocaine, alcohol or heroin
What is alcohol?
This many people die from tobacco related causes each year : 1,500, 15,000, 100,00, or 480,000?
What is 480,000?
The need for increased amounts of the same substance to achieve the desired effect, or diminished effect if using the same amount of substance
What is tolerance
xThis medication is used in the treatment of alcohol dependence, and works by altering the metabolism of alcohol so that drinking precipitates an uncomfortable physical reaction including nausea, vomiting and burning sensation in the face (flushing).
What is antabuse?
The most commonly used illicit drug (in most states)
WHat is marijuana?
This is the most serious form of alcohol withdrawal, and often begins within 72 hours of drinking cessation. It can include visual hallucinations, tremor, and vital sign instability (also mortality rate of 10-15%
Delirium Tremens
People who don’t start drinking till they are 21 are just as likely, statistically peaking to develop alcohol use disorders as those who start in early teens. True or false?
What is false?They are less likely.
This class of drugs was first used in medical practice inthe 1930s as a treatment for nasal congestion, and since then has been used for narcolepsy, depression, obesity parkinsons and most recently ADHD
amphetamines
This drug is has been the most successful drug in helping with smoking cessation, according to recent studies.
This drug is commonly referred to the date rape drug because if produces sedation and memory loss. It can also lead to respiratory distress and coma
GHB or Rohypnol
Intoxication with this legal and commonly used substance can include anxiety, insomnia, twitching or tremor, dizziness, flushing of the face, sweating, and stomach problems.
Caffeine
In 2007, prescription pain medications like Vicodin and OxyContin were involved in more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined.
What is true?
Drugs of abuse produce feeling of pleasure by altering communication between neurons in the reward system that releases this neurotransmitter.
WHat is dopamine?
This drug can reverse the effects of opioid overdose immediately, but may have to be used twice as its effects are temporary.
The urine drug screen for this drug can be positive for up to 4 weeks in heavy users
What is THC?
Which method of drug use allows the drug to reach the brain fastest, leading to higher likelihood of addiction? smoking, snorting, IV or inhalation?
What is smoking?
This is the most common coingestant in drug overdoses
What is alcohol?
This is the most commonly used psychoactive substance in the United States
This medication is an anti-epileptic medication that in studies has been shown to increase days of abstinence from alcohol and reduce alcohol cravings.
What is Topamax?
Solvents, glue, paint thinners and gasoline are examples of this class of drugs .
Can be fatal in overdose from arrhythmias or respiratory depression
What are inhalants?