Alcohol
What are areas of the brain the alcohol impairs?
What are areas of the brain the alcohol impairs? Balance, Memory, Speech, and Judgement.
The most traded item on Earth.
What are cigarettes?
Chronic use of substances like alcohol, stimulants, or anabolic steroids can interfere with the hormones and nutrition needed for proper growth and development.
This can result in delayed what?
This can result in delayed puberty, reduced growth potential, and permanently shorter stature.
The most abused prescription drug.
What is opioids?
50% of all suicides, and over 50% of all violent crimes, are cause by alcohol and/or drugs.
True
The number of people that die yearly from alcohol related deaths.
What is more than 95,000?
The number of people that die every 4.5 seconds from to tobacco related diseases.
What is one?
What is a depressant?
A class of drugs that slows down the messages travelling between the brain and the body. They can reduce arousal and stimulation, making a person feel relaxed or drowsy.
How 70% of those who abuse prescription drugs obtain them.
What is family and friends?
Pain killers, tranquilizers and stimulants are the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
True
The percent of driving deaths that are alcohol related.
What is 31%?
The number of deaths from alcohol-impaired driving in the United states in 2021, 13,384 people. That's one death every 39 minutes.
Vaping has been linked to an increased risk of mental health problems such as?
Anxiety, depression, and substance abuse.
What is a stimulant?
What is a stimulant? A class of drugs that speed up messages travelling between the brain and body. They can make a person feel more awake, alert, confident or energetic.
The probability of dying from a opioid overdose.
( 1 in ? )
What is 1 in 96 chance?
That's one every 15 minutes.
The probability of dying in a motor vehicle crash is 1 in 103.
13 years old is the average age children start experimenting with drugs.
True
Alcohol can damage brain areas like the hippocampus, which is critical for forming what?
New memories. This can lead to lasting learning and memory problems.
How many chemicals does tobacco smoke contain?
Over 7000
What are psychedelic's?
What are psychedelic's? A class of drugs affect all the senses, altering a person’s thinking, sense of time and emotions. They can also cause a person to hallucinate—seeing or hearing things that do not exist or are distorted.
Number of ER visits the were caused by adolescents self-administrating last year.
What is 58,546?
70% of all domestic violence reports are somehow related to alcohol or drugs.
False
*80%
The _______, responsible for planning, reasoning, and impulse control, is still developing in the teenage years.
Frontal Lobe.
Alcohol can interfere with this development, making it harder for teens to think through consequences and control their behavior, leading to impulsive actions.
Vaping produces an ________?
Aerosol- that contains harmful chemicals, including ultrafine particles, heavy metals, and flavorings. Inhaling this aerosol can damage the lungs, leading to inflammation, irritation, and even chronic lung disease
What are dissociatives?
What are dissociatives? A class of drugs that can cause people to feel separated or detached from reality. They can also cause hallucinations or other changes in thoughts, emotions and consciousness.
A synthetic opioid that is 100 times stronger than morphine and 50 times stronger than heroin. It is often injected or pressed into counterfeit pills.
What is Fentanyl?
Many fake pills are made to look like prescription opioids – such as oxycodone (), hydrocodone, Xanax; or stimulants like Adderall – but contain fentanyl or methamphetamine.
6 out of every 10 pills with Fentanyl contain a potentially lethal dose.
Overdose deaths were the lowest ever in 2021.
False
In 2021, as reported by the CDC, there were 100,306 fatal overdoses in the US, up 28.5% from the previous year and the highest number ever recorded in US history. .