A Drug by any other name
Any drug used to prevent, cure or treat an illness is called.
What is medicine?
If over 21, what amount of alcohol (BAC) is considered illegal when operating a vehicle.
What is .08 or higher?
These substances cause a change within a person's physical or psychological state.
What are drugs?
This drug is linked to 40% of all motor vehicle crashes.
What is alcohol?
Place in order the stages of progression in regards to addiction. (abuse, addiction, no use, misuse, use)
What are no use, use, misuse, abuse, addiction?
Medicines that can be bought without a prescription are called.
What are Over-the Counter?
If an athlete is found to be using this type of drug, the sanctions can range in severity from fines, titles and awards being taken, and/or banning from their sport.
What are performance enhancing drugs (PEDs)?
Use of these drugs can cause lowered energy, slowed breathing, slowed heart rate, and lower body temperature.
What are depressants?
Bullying, rebelliousness, low community attachment and family conflict are all examples of these factors.
What are risk factors?
These symptoms are known as this and keep the addiction going due to the distressing symptoms driving the addict to take more drugs to alleviate the symptoms. These are physical and psychological symptoms.
What are withdrawal symptoms?
This drug has recently been in the news for its medicinal purposes. It can be inhaled or ingested.
What is Marijuana?
When a person develops a physical need for a substance and can no longer control their substance use it is known as.
What is addiction?
These drugs are known to excite, or speed up the brain and its functions.
What are stimulants?
Influence from one's peer group is known as.
What is peer pressure?
With repeated use this is built up which requires the person to use more and more frequently to get the same effects.
What is tolerance?
This drug is often the first that teenagers experiment with and is known by the method in which in is used.
What are inhalants?
38 states now have this form of prevention that allows users to exchange their method of use for clean supplies.
What are needle exchanges?
These drugs affect the ability to think, feel, judge, and act. They make it hard to know what is real. They may cause users to forget periods of time.
What are hallucinogens?
Opportunities within the community for involvement, acknowledgment of contributions, connections within school, sports or organizations are known as these factors.
What are protective factors?
After repeated use, a person will find that they are this, meaning they cannot function properly without taking the drug.
**Bonus: When the body needs it to function properly it is called this type of dependency.
This type of dependency occurs when a person’s emotional or mental state does not function normally without the drug.
What is dependent?
Bonus: Physical, Psychological
North Carolina is one of the leading producers of this type of product, whose active drug is found within all of its products.
What are tobacco and nicotine?
There are more than 4,000 chemicals found within cigarette smoke, more than 40 of these chemicals are known carcinogens, name at least one of the known carcinogens.
What are cyanide, formaldehyde, lead, vinyl chloride?
In the brain reward system, behaviors are reinforced by the release of this neurotransmitter.
What is dopamine?
Individuals who (blank) are at a higher risk than their peers to drop out school and engage in criminal activity.
What is misuse drugs?
To combat addiction, a person who uses drugs may decide to choose the path of this and enter into a (blank), where they would benefit from:
Counseling to understand why they have become addicted
Healing past traumas
Dealing with physical and psychological symptoms in a monitored states
What is Recovery and Treatment Centers?