Tobacco
Addiction Cycle
Addiction and the Brain
Alcohol Facts
Alcohol and the body
100
The addictive ingredient in tobacco products
What is nicotine?
100
A scientific theory about how experimentation with drugs can lead to addiction
What is the addiction cycle?
100
Two parts of the brain that are involved in developing addiction
What are the pleasure pathway and the frontal lobe?
100
This is formed through a process called fermentation
What is ethanol?
100
The organ that metabolizes alcohol
What is the liver?
200
How long it takes nicotine to reach the brain
What is 10 seconds?
200
Lonely, depressed, bored, curious, peers, family, role models, to fit in, etc.
What are reasons young people experiment with drugs?
200
The hormone that is release that causes a person to experience pleasure
What is dopamine?
200
The classification of alcohol
What is a depressant?
200
Cirrhosis of the liver, poor eyesight, slowed reaction time, emotional mood swings, violent crimes, loss of relationships
What are health effects of alcohol abuse?
300
Heart disease, emphysema, cataracts, COPD, cancer of the bladder, liver, pancreas, stomach, lungs, ulcers
What are the effects of smoking on the organs?
300
Needing an increasing amount of a drug to get the same effect
What is tolerance?
300
Physical symptoms that result from a person stopping using a drug that he/she is dependent on
What is withdrawal?
300
How long it takes alcohol to reach the brain
What is 90 seconds?
300
A impairment of short-term memory causing a person to have an inability to recall events.
What is a blackout?
400
The classification of this drug
What is a stimulant?
400
A downward spiral in which a person will sacrifice anything for the drug
What is addiction?
400
The difference between drug abuse and dependence
What is control or choice?
400
The amount of alcohol present in a person's blood
What is blood alcohol concentration?
400
The brain is the main organ
What is the central nervous system?
500
premature wrinkles, grey hair, shorter life span
What are three effects tobacco has on aging?
500
When a drug addict who has given up the drug begins using again
What is relapse?
500
Genetics, coping skills, supportive relationships (or lack of them), good mental health (or bad)
What are reasons some people develop addiction and others do not?
500
Alcohol poisoning, coma, death
What are dangers of binge drinking?
500
Over 21 vs under 21, a small amount occasionally vs a large amount, low BAC vs high BAC
What is the difference between use and abuse of alcohol?
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