Introduction to Drugs
Any chemical substance that changes the way a person thinks, feels, or acts.
What is a drug?
These drugs increase heart rate and increase blood pressure.
What are stimulants?
The addictive drug found in tobacco.
What is nicotine?
The main ingredient in marijuana that produces the high.
What is THC?
The legal age to drink alcohol.
What is 21?
The drug that causes the greatest numbers of deaths in the U.S.
What is tobacco?
These drugs slow down heart rate and slow down brain activity.
What are depressants?
Provide a short-term effect of tobacco.
What is increased heart rate, bad breath, coughing, decreased appetite, or feelings of euphoria?
Provide a short-term effect of marijuana.
What are altered senses, altered sense of time, changes in mood, impaired body movement, or impaired memory?
Provide a short-term effect of alcohol.
What is slurred speech, drowsiness, vomiting, distorted vision and hearing, or impaired judgement?
The drug that causes the second greatest numbers of deaths in the U.S.
What is alcohol?
Give an example of a drug that is a stimulant.
What is nicotine/tobacco?
Provide a long-term effect of tobacco.
What is cancer of the nose, lip, tongue, & mouth, heart disease, strokes, or chronic cough?
Provide a long-term effect of marijuana.
What is the cancer of respiratory tract, throat, mouth, & lung, risk of lung disease; lung damage, or respiratory infection?
Provide a long-term effect of alcohol.
What is high blood pressure, stroke, liver disease, cancer of the liver and throat, or alcohol poisoning?
Drugs can damage nerve cells in this organ.
What is the brain?
Give an example of a drug that is a depressant.
What is marijuana or alcohol?
Smoking tobacco affects which parts or organs of the body.
What is the heart or lungs?
Smoking marijuana affects which parts or organs of the body.
What is the lungs or brain?
Drinking alcohol affects which parts or organs of the body.
What is liver, stomach, heart, and the brain?