Stimulants or Depressants
Highly addictive stimulant found in many carbonated beverages that can raise blood pressure, produce anxiety and lead to bouts of insomnia.
What is caffeine?
A treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain circuits, genetics, the environment and someone's life experiences.
What is addiction?
Name least two factors that affects a person's blood alcohol level concentration (BAC).
What are any of the following: gender, weight, mixer-type used, metabolism, carbonation added or not, rate and or amount of consumption?
Addictive chemical found in tobacco and most vape products.
What is nicotine?
Legal age in Alaska for purchasing, possessing and consuming/smoking marijuana.
What is 21?
Often overlooked disease consequence of IV drug use.
What is Hepatitis C infection? What is HIV infection?
A return to substance misuse after a period of recovery.
What is a relapse/lapse?
Number of annual Alaskan deaths related to excessive alcohol use.
What is 433?
This type of exposure can cause disease and premature death in children and adults who do not smoke.
What is second-hand smoke?
True or False- The federal government has legalized marijuana.
What is false?
This illicit stimulant causes: brain bleeding, hallucinations, rotting teeth, aged skin, skin sores and long term cognition deficits.
What is Methamphetamine?
The people, places, things and situations that compel a person struggling with addiction to seek out substances and can lead to relapse.
What are triggers?
Within 2 -3 hours, having 5 more more drinks for men OR 4 or more drinks for women.
What is binge drinking?
Use of this tobacco product can cause gum disease and tooth decay.
What is smokeless tobacco/dip/chew?
Average number of IQ points lost when marijuana is used regularly in adolescence.
What are 8 points?
Highly addictive illegal street opioid drug with a high risk of overdose and death.
What is Heroin? What is Fentanyl? What is Carfentanyl?
This drug works within seconds to reverse an opioid overdose in the body.
What is Narcan? What is Naloxone?
Some symptoms of this include mental confusion, difficulty remaining conscious, vomiting, seizure, trouble breathing, slow heart rate, clammy skin.
What is alcohol poisoning/overdose/toxicity?
Small white precancerous patches inside the mouth resulting from smokeless tobacco exposure.
What are leukoplakia patches?
The mind altering chemical present in marijuana.
What is THC or Tetrahydrocannabinol?
Long term effects of abusing this illicit stimulant can include loss of smell, frequent nose bleeds and problems swallowing food and drink.
What is cocaine?
Name of condition in which severe lung illness, sometimes fatal, is a result of using e-cigarette and vaping products.
What is EVALI (e-cigarette or vaping use-associated lung injury)?
On average, a person abusing alcohol will drive this many times under the influence before their first arrest.
What is 80 times?
Tobacco accounts for this many annual US deaths.
What is 480,000 deaths annually?
When smoked, drank or ingested, cannabis activates these brain receptors.
What are cannabinoid receptors?