Statistics
The most commonly used form of tobacco among youth in the United States.
What are E-cigarettes?
Illicit drugs like cocaine and methamphetamines as well as prescription drugs like amphetamines classify as this type of drug.
What are stimulants?
The depletion of dopamine can lead to depression, problems with feeling pleasure, cognitive issues, and problems with movement/coordination, confusion, skin sores, severe weight loss, severe dental problems, and trouble sleeping.
What are the Long-Term Effects of using Methamphetamines?
Difficulty making rational decisions, feeling upbeat and excited, impaired coordination, slurred speech, decreased awareness of inappropriate or risky behavior, increased likeliness to engage in risky behavior, and less likely to recognize danger.
What are the Short-Term effects of using Alcohol?
One of the most common symptoms of withdrawal among almost all drugs.
What are strong cravings?
Plays a role in the deaths of 4,358 people under the age of 21 every year, including deaths from car crashes, murders, and suicides.
What is alcohol?
This type of drug makes the user feel calm, relaxed, drowsy, tired because the central nervous system is slowed down. Some examples include benzodiazepines (Xanax), barbiturates, sleep medications.
What are depressants?
Increased risk for mental health problems like depression and anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and the development of schizophrenia/psychosis. Also reduced school performance and life satisfaction.
What are the Long-Term Effects of Marijuana Use?
Memory problems, difficulties with concentration, relaxed inhibitions, disoriented behavior, and the inability to think clearly.
What is Short-Term Effect of Marijuana use?
This legal substance is classified as a depressant and is often consumed in its liquid form.
What is Alcohol?
In 2015, nearly 13,000 people died from overdosing on this drug.
What is Heroin?
This type of drug speeds up the central nervous system causing increased heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature.
What are the effects of stimulants?
Interferes with normal brain development by changing the way the brain learns as well as processes information.
What are Long-Term Effects of Alcohol Use?
Feeling good, clouded thinking, drowsiness, decreased heart rate and breathing.
What are the Short-Term Effects of using Heroin?
Has become increasingly popular among youth in several areas of the country and are more likely to be misused than some other drugs because these medicines can be purchased without a prescription.
What are over-the-counter cough and cold medicines?
The most commonly used illicit drug in the United States and has the highest rate of dependence or abuse among all other drugs besides alcohol.
What is Marijuana?
This type of drug alters the user's perception of pleasure and pain.
What are the effects of opioids?
Changes in brain functioning, problems sleeping, infection of the heart, stomach issue like constipation, liver and kidney disease, lung problems, mental health problems
What are the Long-Term Effects of using Heroin?
Causes a buildup of dopamine in the brain which leads to a feeling of intense pleasure and increased energy, however this "high" wears off quickly and causes the user to feel sad and tired
What are the Short-Term effects of using Cocaine?
Increases the activity of serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine which can cause the user to feel sweaty and have the chills at the same time, feely hyper and alter, changes in sense of time and perception heightened emotions like joy, and increased heart rate.
What are the effects of MDMA?
A study done in 2008 found that one in ten American teenagers has abused this OTC medicine, making it more popular in that age group than cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, and meth.
What is cough and cold medicine?
Heroin, morphine, codeine, and oxycodone
What are some examples of opioids?
Damages nerve fibers in the brain and body causing muscle spasms, heart damage, liver failure, chronic pain, inability to learn new things, difficulties with daily activities such as simple conversation, solving complex problems and planning ahead, damage of user's ability to walk and talk.
What are Long-Term effects of Inhalants?
Slurred speech, Lack of coordination, Euphoria, Dizziness, Lightheadedness, Hallucinations, Delusions, Can lead to unconsciousness, Possible death, Feeling drowsy, Headache for a few hours
What are Short-Term Effects of using Inhalants?
Popular "date rape" drugs because the victims cannot resist an assault and may be unable to recall what happened the next day.
What are Rohypnol and GHB (gamma-hydroxyburtyrate)?