Health Risks/Diseases
Genetic/Biological Factors
Medications
Effects on the Brain
Grab Bag
100
The two types of cancer that adolescents that drink and smoke are more likely to get. (hint: 2 parts of the body)
What are mouth and throat?
100
The name for wanting both alcohol and tobacco at the same time.
What is mutual craving?
100
Name 2 ways to prevent/reduce alcohol & tobacco use in teens without prescribing actual medications.
What are interventions/mediations, AA meetings, parents' & teachers' influence, school programs? (any of these count)
100
The part of the brain that is most effected by alcohol and tobacco abuse in teens (aka the part that regulates working memory & learning).
What is the hippocampus?
100
Name one more factor besides genetics that could contribute to an adolescent's co-use of alcohol & drugs?
What is environmental?
200
This type of cancer has increased dramatically in the US over the past ten years.
What is liver cancer?
200
Identical twins are how many times as likely as fraternal twins to be dependent on alcohol & drugs if the other twin is dependent.
What is twice?
200
The type of therapy that injects nicotine into the body through means besides tobacco.
What is Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)?
200
Nicotine makes an adolescent feel what while smoking a cigarette, and then what after smoking?
What is good (happy) and anxious, nervous, depressed?
200
The decrease in a person's sensitivity to a drug's effects is called this.
What is tolerance?
300
The word that means scarring of the liver.
What is cirrhosis?
300
The term when tolerance of one drug switches to the tolerance of another.
What is cross-tolerance?
300
The only antidepressant that has been approved by the FDA to treat nicotine dependence.
What is Bupropion?
300
The name of the key brain chemical involved in addiction.
What is dopamine?
300
This population group is the most likely to use tobacco and alcohol together.
What are white young adults?
400
The American Heart Association estimates that about 34% of the US population has some type of this disease.
What is cardiovascular?
400
The part of the brain that is involved in reward, emotion, memory, and cognition.
What is the mesolimbic dopamine system?
400
The medication that works at the nicotine receptor level to diminish nicotine's effects.
What is Varenicline?
400
Adolescents are more likely to chronically smoke cigarettes if they have what neuropsychiatric condition.
What is schizophrenia, depressive disorders, and anxiety disorders? (any of these count)
400
The three types of violations leading to an underage driver's license being suspended or revoked.
What are underage purchase, underage possession, & underage consumption?
500
Name three mental health disorders that adolescents are more likely to go through after starting to smoke & drink.
What is depression, hopelessness, worthlessness, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder, more likely to be suicidal? (any of these answers count)
500
People are more or less sensitive to alcohol/tobacco's effects because of genetic variations in the number of what they process.
What are nicotine receptors?
500
An anticonvulsant drug that works better than just receiving therapy.
What is Topiramate?
500
Another name for the nucleus accumbens, a very dopamine-rich area of the brain.
What is the pleasure center?
500
The state that was the first to require addiction treatment facilities address tobacco dependence as well as alcohol.
What is New Jersey?
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