Legal and Illegal Drugs
Drugs and the Brain
Factors of Drug Abuse
Commonly Abused Drugs
Drug Prevention
100
Taking too much of a drug on purpose.
What is drug abuse?
100
The chemical response of the body to one who stops taking drugs and experiences dangerous symptoms.
What is withdrawal?
100
A poor relationship at home.
What is a family factor?
100
When two drugs combine to increase the effects on the user.
What is drug synergism?
100
The response you should say when someone offers you drugs.
What is NO?
200
A slang name for illegal drugs; cocaine, meth, Marijuana, Ecstasy etc.
What are street drugs?
200
Brain chemical that activates a reward pathway to the brain.
What is Dopamine?
200
Drug Abusing peer group.
What is social factor?
200
These drugs cause a lack of coordination, sleepiness, nausea vomiting etc.
What are depressants?
200
A factor that reduces a person's potential for harmful behavior.
What is a protective factor?
300
Over the Counter Drug
What type of drug is Claritin?
300
A drug that alters mood and behavior and effects the brain directly.
What is a psychoactive drug?
300
Low self-esteem.
What are personal factors?
300
A residential treatment center where former drug abusers live together to adjust to drug-free lives.
What is a detoxification program?
300
A treatment program that replaces the abused drug with a drug that produces the same effects without the high.
What is supervised medication?
400
Improper use of medicines.
What is drug misuse?
400
When the effects of two or more drugs are canceled out or reduced by each other.
What is Drug Antagonism?
400
A personal belief to not use drugs and a commitment to health and success.
What are personal factors?
400
Using drugs to run away from your problems and issues can be known as this specific word.
What is escapism?
400
Physical activities, volunteering, academic endeavors, or joining a youth group.
What are drug alternatives?
500
Buy, Sell, Manufacture or Possess.
What are the four things that classify illegal drugs?
500
Be there for them, help them, support them in getting clean and getting the right help, it is not snitching if they are hurting themselves.
What are the qualities of a good friend?
500
Repeated drug use may lead to drug tolerance, or the need of increasingly large amounts to achieve the original "high".
What is drug tolerance?
500
Known as the "gateway" drug to stronger and more dangerous drugs.
What is Marijuana?
500
Not letting your friends do drugs and if they are into them doing something about it, being an example.
What is BEING A GOOD FRIEND!?
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