A psychoactive drug that slows brain and body reactions.
What is a depressant?
100
A drug that increases heart rate blood pressure, breathing rate, and alertness.
What is a stimulant?
100
These drugs overload the brain with sensory information, causing a distorted sense of reality.
What are hallucinogens?
100
Cannabis sativa provides the leaves, stems, and flowering tops for this drug.
What is marijuana?
100
Family, friends and personal factors.
What are the 3 factors that influence an individual's decisions about drugs?
200
Also called sedative-hypnotics. (They relax a person)
What are barbiturates?
200
"Speed" or "uppers".
What are amphetamines?
200
The strongest known hallucinogen.
What is LSD?
200
Distorted perceptions, difficulties with thinking and problem solving, loss of motor coordination, increased heart rate, feelings of anxiety or paranoia?
What are the side effects of marijuana?
200
When a drug is intentionally used improperly or unsafely.
What is drug abuse?
300
Side effects include impaired judgment, decreased alertness, lack of coordination, memory problems, vomiting.
What are side effects of alcohol?
300
"Crank", "crystal", "ice". Users ultimately become paranoid and psychotic due to brain damage.
What is Methamphetamine?
300
"Bad trips" and "flashbacks".
What are side effects from LSD?
300
Ecsasy, roofies, special K.
What are "club drugs"?
300
Hepatitis and HIV.
What are some of the health risks of drug abuse?
400
One of the most frequently abused opiate in the United States.
What is heroin?
400
This drug can be sniffed, smoked, injected directly into bloodstream. Highly addictive. Crack is its strongest form.
What is cocaine?
400
Psilocybin.
What are "shrooms"?
400
A breathable chemical vapor that produced mind-altering effects.
What is an inhalant?
400
Behavioral signs, physical signs, social signs.
What are some signs you may recognize as drug abuse?
500
Morphine and codeine, used to relieve extreme pain, are made from this plant.
What is the poppy plant?
500
Long-term effects include hacking cough, difficulty breathing, increased number of colds, heart and lung disease.
What are the long-term effects of nicotine/tobacco smoke?
500
This drug was once used as a pankiller or anesthetic for large animals.
What is PCP?
500
Synthetic drug similar to the hormone testosterone.
What is an anabolic steroid?
500
The skills needed to say "no" when under pressure.