Street Knowledge
When referring to a doobie what are you referring to
What is a marijuana?
Most of the illicitly manufactured fentanyl comes from these two countries
This drug promotes understanding and connection
What percentage of crime can be attributed to drug addiction abuse
This level of use involves seeking a known drug to experience a known effect, but no pattern has been established.
What is Social/Recreational?
Involves the establishment of drug-seeking behavior.
1.7 grams of a drug
ER visits increased by 98% between 2004 and 2009 because of ___________________.
What is non-medical use of prescription drugs
The three costs to society that have the biggest increases related to the misuse of alcohol and drugs.
What is the increased cost of crime, work productivity, and healthcare?
The total costs related to each type of drug include:
Tobacco: $300 billion
Alcohol abuse: $249 billion
Illegal drug abuse: $193 billion
Prescription drug abuse: $78.5 billion
This classification of drug provides users with added energy and contentment
This level of use involves a compulsion to use drugs/alcohol and the person is losing control of their use; and those substances have become the most important thing in their lives.
What is addiction?
The Four C’s
1. Loss of control
2. Compulsive drug use
3. Cravings for drugs
4. Continued use despite increasing catastrophic consequences associated with use.
If you have a water pistol what do you have?
In 2013, 22.7 million Americans needed treatment for this ____________.
_______ changes your brain chemistry
This president was responsible for starting the War on Drugs
This level of use is when a person becomes curious about the effects of a drug.
What is experimentation?
No pattern of use develops, and there are only limited negative consequences in the person’s life.
When you go into a store to buy a meth pipe, what do you have to ask for?
4.6 million users visited here in 2009
This synthetic drug results in a massive release of the neurotransmitters norepinephrine and dopamine
What percentage of IV use can cause an increased risk of contracting HIV
This level of use is when a person continues use of a drug despite negative consequences.
What is abuse?
Varies from addiction in that it does not involve a compulsion.
Regardless of the frequency of use, if negative consequences develop in a person’s relationships, social life, finances, legal status, health, work, school, or emotional well-being and drug use continue on a regular basis, that behavior could be classified as drug abuse.
This drug is known by the name dog food
10.9 % of the populations did this in 2013
List three effects of benzo withdrawal
What is moderate to severe depression, extreme anxiety, sensory hypersensitivity, poor memory, heart palpitations, sweating/night sweats, muscle twitching?
More teens die from __________ than heroin and cocaine combined
This level of use involves a definite pattern of use, however, the user does not experience any serious negative consequences of the use.
What is habituation?
Regardless of what happens that day or that week, the person will use that drug; and so long as it does not affect the person’s life in a really negative way, it could be called habituation.