Drug Basics
A substance that changes how your body or mind works.
What is a drug?
A drug that speeds up the body and makes you feel more awake.
What is a stimulant?
Drugs can block or change the way messages travel in your brain.
How do drugs affect the brain?
Medicine that a doctor gives you with instructions for safe use.
What is a prescription drug?
Even one use of some drugs can lead to addiction.
Can you get addicted after one use?
Using a drug in the wrong way, like taking too much or using someone else’s medicine.
What is drug misuse?
A drug that slows down brain activity and makes you feel relaxed or sleepy.
What is a depressant?
When someone needs more of a drug to feel the same effect.
What is tolerance?
Medicine you can buy without a doctor’s note, like cough syrup or aspirin.
What is an over-the-counter drug?
Some illegal drugs are less harmful than others, but all carry risks.
Are all illegal drugs dangerous?
Repeatedly using drugs in a harmful way, even when it causes problems.
What is drug abuse?
A drug that causes you to see, hear, or feel things that aren’t real.
What is a hallucinogen?
The uncomfortable symptoms that happen when someone stops using a drug.
What is withdrawal?
The minimum age to legally buy tobacco or vape products in most states.
What is 21?
Drugs like marijuana can slow reaction time and make driving unsafe.
Can you drive safely after using marijuana?
A brain disorder where someone feels a strong need to keep using a drug.
What is addiction?
A powerful pain-relieving drug that can be addictive and dangerous.
What is an opioid?
Drugs can make your heart beat faster or slower and change your blood pressure.
How do drugs affect heart rate?
The illegal selling or transporting of drugs.
What is drug trafficking?
Vaping still puts harmful chemicals into your lungs.
Is vaping harmless?
A process that helps people stop using drugs and learn to live without them.
What is rehabilitation?
A man-made drug that’s created in a lab and can be unpredictable.
What is a synthetic drug?
Drugs can make it harder to think clearly, remember things, or learn.
How do drugs affect memory and learning?
A law that organizes drugs into groups based on how dangerous or addictive they are.
What is the Controlled Substances Act?
Quitting drugs is hard and often requires help and support.
Can you quit drugs without help?