Addiction
Repeated drug or alcohol use that can change the brain.
What is addiction?
The part of the tobacco plant that leads to addiction?
What is nicotine?
A depressant drug that slows down various sections of the brain and the central nervous system.
What is alcohol?
Actions and decisions to avoid drug and alcohol use.
What are healthy choices?
A substance (with the exception of food and water) which, when taken into the body, alters the body's function either physically and/or psychologically.
What is a drug?
A disease caused by long term repeated use of alcohol that can cause addiction.
What is alcoholism?
Like other diseases eventually a person can become sick and may need medical treatment.
When a person continues to seek out the tobacco even though he or she understands the harm it causes.
What is nicotine addiction?
When a person is less aware that his/her behavior may be inappropriate or risky.
What is intoxicated?
Something you can to do when someone offers you drugs, alcohol or nicotine.
What is say "No thanks?"
Be assertive (strong with your words). Tell them you have better things to do.
When person needs drugs just to feel normal.
What is tolerance?
A chronic brain disease that causes a person to take drugs or alcohol repeatedly.
What is Addiction?
Nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide, acetaldehyde, and nitrosamines.
What are the dangerous chemicals in tobacco products?
Causes an increased the risk of developing an alcohol use disorder later in life.
Encourage your friend to speak with a trusted adult.
What can I do if I am worried about a friend using drugs?
This can eventually lead to dramatic changes in neurons and brain circuits.
What is using drugs, including alcohol?
The most addictive drug.
What is heroin?
This potent opiate has an alarming rate of addiction, with one in four individuals who try heroin becoming addicted.
The leading preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States
What is tobacco use?
A medical condition that doctors diagnose when someone’s drinking causes them distress or harm.
What is alcohol use disorder?
Avoiding alcohol, drugs and tobacco use.
Keeping yourself safe and healthy?
This is a leading cause of death in 2017 (just over 5,400) among young people ages 15-24.
What is a drug overdose?
The second most addictive drug.
What is alcohol?
This legalized substance has a death rate of over 3 million per year.
The most commonly used form of tobacco use among youth in the United States.
What is vaping?
What does use of alcohol and drugs affect in teens and young adults?
What is brain development?
Important parts of the brain are still developing until your early 20's.
The one person that has the most influence on your life.
Who is YOU?
Good choices NOW leads to a good future.
The most deadly and dangerous drug?
What is alcohol?
Alcohol kills more people than all other drugs combined!