Alcohol
Intoxication impairs a persons _____________ and physcial abilities.
What is mental?
The colorless, odorless, highly addictive drug found in tobacco.
What is Nicotine?
Who is Tiffany Pfeifer?
The percentage of Americans who have a depression or anxiety disorder that also have a substance use disorder.
What is 20%?
A chemical substance that is taken to change a person's body or behavior.
What is Drug?
This organ does the work in ridding alcohol from your body.
What is liver?
Two of the four ways drugs enter the body.
What are mouth, injection, inhalation, and absorption?
The Pythagorean Theorem.
Alcohol is the cause of one in _____ deaths worldwide.
What is twenty?
A drug that accelerates the heart rate and elevates the blood pressure. (Ex: cocaine)
What is Stimulant?
Alcohol is a member of this group of drugs.
(stimulant, depressant, hallucinogen, inhalant)
What is a depressant?
When the body becomes used to a drug and needs larger and larger amounts to produce the same effects, they have developed a _________.
What is tolerance?
The two colors you mix together to make the color purple.
What are blue and red?
Genetics account for about ___% to 60% of a person's risk of addiction.
What is 40?
The state in which a person's mental and physical abilities are impaired by a substance.
What is Intoxication?
Alcohol affects the brain's ability to
Name three of the factors that determine the effects a drug might have on the mind and body.
1. The way the drug enters the body
2. The dose taken at one time
3. The weight, age, and health of the person
4. The emotional state of the person
5. Whether the person is taking more than one drug at one time.
In what sport do you kick a ball into a goal.
What is soccer?
About ______ million young adults age 18 - 25 battled a substance use disorder. This equates to 14.8% of the population and about 1 in 7 people.
What is 5?
The consequence of taking excessive amounts of a drug that leads to coma or death.
What is Overdose?
Alcohol disrupts the parts of the brain development responsible for memory and ________________.
What is problem-solving (or logic)?
The continued need for the effects of a drug even though those effects harm the body, mind, and relationships.
What is Drug Dependence?
The Disney movie where the princess drops her slipper while running out of the ball.
What is Cinderella?
More than ___% of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems.
What is 10?
A drug that causes people to perceive things differently than they actually are. (ex: LSD)
What is hallucinogen?