Marijuana
What are the different ways you can take marijuana?
Eaten or smoked
What are the three different types of alcohol?
Beer, liquor, and wine
LSD are classed as what type of drug?
Hallucinogen
What is the most common street name of Methamphetamine?
Ice
How is cocaine usually taken?
"Sniffed, Injected or eaten"
Name 3 'street names' for Marijuana
Green, Weed, Hash, Dope, Devils Lettuce, Pot, Mary Jane, Etc.
What are the hang-over symptoms?
"Nausea, shakiness, and headache"
What is the common street name for LSD?
Acid
What drug categories does Methamphetamine fit into?
Stimulant and Hallucinogen
What are two different street names for cocaine?
Coke, flake, snow, crack
What are four effects of marijuana?
Euphoria, relaxed inhibitions, increased appetite, disorientation
What 3 systems of the body does alcohol effect in the long-term?
gastrointestinal tract, liver, bloodstream, brain/nervous system, heart, muscles, and endocrine system
What are three common effects of LSD?
seeing, smelling, hearing or touching things that aren’t real, more intense senses, a distorted sense of time and space, strange feelings in the body, like floating, rapidly changing or intense emotions, altered state of thinking, dilated pupils, confusion, headaches, muscles twitching, increased body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure.
How long can and Ice Rush last up to?
12 hours
What are three of the effects of cocaine?
Increased alertness, excitation, euphoria, increased pulse rate and blood pressure, insomnia, loss of appetite
What is the name of the plant on which Marijuana grows?
Cannabis
How many standard drinks need to be consumed before it is classified as 'binge drinking'?
How long can the effects of LSD last?
Between 4 and 12 hours.
What are the four different short term effects of Methamphetamine?
Hyper activity, hallucinations, nausea, delusion of power, increased aggression and irritability, decreased hunger, insomnia, confusion, paranoia.
What are three symptoms of a cocaine 'come down'?
Runny nose, depression, foggy or slow thinking, physical shaking or tremors, increased appetite.
What neurotransmitter (chemical) does marijuana release in the brain?
Dopamine--which gives off pleasure, and makes a person continually want it.
What chemical does alcohol often release in the body?
Endorphins--gives off a pleasant feeling
What are two common experiences with a 'bad trip'.
extreme anxiety or fear, frightening hallucinations (e.g. spiders crawling on the skin), panic, making you take risks (like running into the traffic or jumping off a balcony), feeling you are losing control or going mad, paranoia (feeling that other people want to harm you).
Approximately how many hospitalisations were caused by "ice' in 2021 in Australia?
12,400 hospitalisations
Where does cocaine come from?
It derives from a plant that is called coca, and takes multiple steps to be converted into cocaine