Cycle of Addiction
Using drugs out of curiosity or out of peer pressure.
What is Use
The most widely used legal substance in the barracks.
What is Alcohol
It is an addictive substance that comes in multiple forms: cigarettes, cigars, pipes, chew, snuff, second hand smoke and shisha (smoked in a hookah), JUUL and lastly Vape (Vaporizer).
What is Nicotine
The most widely used illegal drug in North America
What is Marijuana
Failing to control your eating, secretly bingeing, feeling guilty after eating, increasing weight gain, and eating over your emotions are all symptoms of ______
What is a food addiction
Getting irritable when drugs are not available or when there is no money to gamble. Continue with their addictive behavior, no matter the danger, consequence or risk involved.
What is Abuse
Alcohol is defined as this because it slows down how fast the nervous system works.
What is a Central Nervous System Depressant
Nicotine is the most addictive for which age group?
What is Adolescence
Anxiety, irritability, insomnia, stomach pain and decreased appetite are caused by ______
What is Cannabis Withdrawal
Betting on sports, buying lotto tickets, playing poker, slot machines, or roulette could develop into a _________ addiction
What is gambling addiction
Using substances to relieve boredom or stress and to escape bad feelings. Job performance or personal life begin to be affected.
What is misuse
This population absorbs alcohol slower because they have less of the enzyme which breaks it down.
What are Women.
Enzyme is Alcohol Dehydrogenase.
Respiratory illness, Cancer, Stroke, Heart disease, gum disease, stained teeth/fingernails and a cough are all sign of ____
What is long term use/ nicotine addiction
You can damage these by using marijuana
What is your lungs
also reputation, relationships, jobs, your life, etc.
Often the motivation for thrill seeking shoplifters
What is indirect peer pressure
Using substances at parties and/ or to "fit in."
What is occasional use
Organ that is responsible for breaking down alcohol
What is the liver
Nicotine withdrawals last for ________
What is a few days or weeks.
Long term users have trouble with this
What is short term memory
True or false, most gamblers have an addiction to other substances.
What is True.
A research study found that 75% of gamblers had an alcohol disorder, 38% had a drug use disorder, and 60% were nicotine dependent.
50% of gamblers have experienced a mood disorder, 41.3% had experienced an anxiety disorder, and 60.8% had experienced a personality disorder.
Substance changes the way the body works, so the person may go through withdrawal when they don't have it. The addiction becomes the only thing they care about.
What is Dependency
This has 13.45 grams of alcohol
What is One Standard Drink
1.5 ounces of alcohol of 80% proof distilled spirits
The time it takes for nicotine to hit the brain when inhaled
What is 7 seconds
The chemical in Marijuana responsible for the feeling of being “high”
What is THC
tetrahydrocannabinol
During prohibition, moonshiners used these on their feet to keep from being spotted.
What are cow shoes