Brain & Addiction
A substance that can change the way a person feels or functions.
What is a drug?
The ingredient in marijuana that makes a person feel “high”.
What is THC?
Where people mostly get the prescription drugs they misuse.
What are friends and relatives?
A popular way to inhale nicotine, without lighting a cigarette.
What is vaping / what are e-cigarettes?
People inhale (breathe in) chemicals in these products to get an immediate rush, or high.
What are household or commercial products?
Drugs can damage nerve cells in this organ.
What is the brain?
They might look like brownies, gummies, or candy but contain marijuana.
What are edibles?
They can make a person feel relaxed, sleepy, and uncoordinated.
What are depressants?
The legal age to buy tobacco/nicotine products
What is 18 years old?
Inhalants can prevent this organ from getting enough oxygen
What is the brain?
The neurotransmitter in the brain commonly affected by drugs.
What is dopamine?
A relatively new way to inhale marijuana without acutally smoking it.
What is marijuana vaping?
They have effects similar to cocaine when misused.
What are stimulants?
The type of tobacco absorbed through mouth tissues (chewing, sniffing, or placing the product between gum and the cheek or lip)
What is smokeless tobacco?
Spray paint, hair spray, deodorant spray, fabric protector spray.
What are aerosol inhalants?
When a person needs more of the same drug just to feel normal.
What is tolerance?
It’s made in a lab to look like marijuana, but it isn’t.
What is synthetic cannabinoids (K2/Spice), also known as herbal or liquid incense?
Legal drugs closely related to heroin.
What are prescription pain medicines (opioids)?
The addictive chemical in tobacco.
What is nicotine?
Paint thinner, nail polish remover, felt-tip markers, glue.
What are volatile solvents?
Returning to drug use after quitting.
What is relapse?
It has increased in potency over the past few decades.
What is the amount of THC in marijuana?
When you can’t stop using the drug despite negative consequences.
What is addiction?
The leading preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in Canada?
What is tobacco use?
Chemical odors on breath or clothing
What are signs of inhalant use?