CB Drug Abuse Review

Alcohol

100

What is alcohol? 

a) Fermented fruit 

b) A depressant

c) inflammable fluid 

d) all of the above

All of the above 

200

Is alcohol is addictive? 

Yes. Alcohol is a drug and people who are addicted suffer from substance abuse disorder.

300

Name 3 ways alcohol is harmful to your health. 

Possible answers 

- changes in decision making 

- liver damage 

- higher risk of cancer (throat, mouth, liver etc) 

- poor mental health (e.g higher risk for depression, anxiety etc) 

- alcohol poisoning 

Prescription Drugs/Opioids

100

What are opioids? 

A) Class of drugs e.g. heroin that are available legally by prescription e.g. codeine 

B)over the counter drugs that relieve pain 

C) synthetic drug that alters mood and perception 

D) foul-smelling crystal that can be eaten or injected

A 

200

Every day, more than __ Americans die after overdosing opioids

A) 47

B) 14

C) 25

D) 115

D

300

Name three ways prescription drugs are harmful to your health. 

Possible Answers 

- Death 

- Coma 

- Memory problems 

- Seizures 

- Poor mental health ETC

Marijuana

100

How is marijuana harmful to your health? Name three ways. 

• Short-term memory problems
• Severe anxiety, including fear that one is being watched or followed (paranoia)
• Very strange behavior, seeing, hearing or smelling things that aren’t there, not being able to tell imagination from reality (psychosis)
• Panic
• Hallucinations ETC

200

Being convicted of marijuana use affects your chances of getting a job and college admission. 

A) TRUE

B) FALSE

TRUE

300

Marijuana is the top substance found in _______ fatalities 

Car accident fatalities