Alcohol
This is the term for consuming a lot of alcohol in a short period of time.
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What is BINGE DRINKING?
This is the name of a cancer causing chemical, of which there are many in tobacco and vape products.
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What is a CARCINOGEN?
This is the name of the plant that marijuana is derived from.
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What is the cannabis plant?
Stephen Hill told us that a pencil tip-sized dose of this drug can be fatal, making it one of the strongest, most dangerous drugs in the world.
What is FENTANYL?
This is the room number for health class. (NO MOVING TO LOOK!)
What is room #164?
This is the only way to sober up after drinking alcohol.
What is WAIT/TIME.
This is the chemical in tobacco products that causes a user to become addicted.
What is NICOTINE?
True or False: Marijuana is legal for everyone for recreational use in NY.
What is FALSE? Marijuana is legalized in NY state only for people over the age of 21.
This is a cheap drug that many people addicted to prescription painkillers will turn to, once they have no more access to the prescription medicine.
What is heroin?
This hormone is released in the brain when a person uses tobacco products, causing very short-term positive feelings.
What is DOPAMINE?
This is the organ that processes alcohol and is especially damage LONG-TERM alcohol use.
What is your LIVER?
These are the tiny air sacs in our lungs, which POP when we inhale cigarette or vape smoke.
What are ALVEOLI?
True or False: The potency (strength) of marijuana has been decreasing over time to make it safer.
What is FALSE? Producers try to increase the THC content to make it stronger and get users hooked.
This is the cause for over 80% of people experimenting with cheap opioids, such as heroin.
What is PREVIOUS ABUSE OF PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION/PAINKILLERS?
This is the hospital that our guest speaker came from, to tell us about the dangers of vaping.
What is Northwell/Northern Westchester Hospital?
What is TRUE?
True or False: Anyone over the age of 18 can legally buy and use tobacco products in New York.
What is false?
The legal age for tobacco use is 21 years old.
Marijuana can be more dangerous when used in a vape device or eaten as an edible because of this main reason.
What is higher potency (strength) of THC in a vape device or edibles?
Will also accept - might not know the potency.
This is the term for when a person purposefully uses medication incorrectly.
What is medication abuse?
This is the word for any substance that changes the way a person thinks, feels and/or acts.
What is a DRUG?
True or False: All types of alcohol are the same, and effect our body in the same way.
What is FALSE?
This is the ingredient in a cigarette that causes a smoker to develop a black, discolored lung over time.
What is tar?
This is the chemical in marijuana that has mind-altering effects and makes it a drug.
What is THC?
True or False: Medications and drugs are the same thing.
What is FALSE?
Medications are considered drugs, but not ALL drugs can be used as medications.
This is the main reason that drugs have a stronger effect on younger users, as compared to adults.
What is the brains still developing until age 25?