What is the difference between stimulants and depressants?
Stimulants is a substance that speeds up your heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure. Depressants decrease your heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure.
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What is the main substance found in cigarettes that is highly addicting?
Nicotine
100
What is a possible consequence of drinking regularly over time?
Dependency on alcohol, liver damage, nerve damage, death.
100
What is the capital of Nevada?
Carson City
200
True or false. Dependence is similar to addiction, where you need something to feel normal.
True
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Even if you smoke one or two cigarettes a day, what do you expect to happen to your body?
Increase in heart rate and blood pressure, blood vessels constrict.
200
Is it more dangerous to drive drunk than high?
They are equally dangerous.
200
What is the name of the elementary school that used to be next to New Brighton?
Capitola Elementary
300
True or False. People are more likely to get ADDICTED to alcohol or drugs when they begin at a young age (teens).
True!
300
Explain why marijuana can still be a harmful substance despite being "natural."
Marijuana can still have toxic properties that can affect hormones, delay puberty, and damage the immune system.
300
True or false. Even if you are not an alcoholic, heavy drinking can still hurt your family, life at school, or friendships.
true
300
There are two mammals that lay eggs. Name one.
Spiny anteater (echidna) or platypus
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THC is ____________ and is the main ingredient in _____________.
tetrahydrocannabinol, marijuana
400
Vaping is often marketed as an alternative to smoking cigarettes, but what are some dangers of e-cigarettes or vape pens most people are unaware of?
They are products not regulated or evaluated by the FDA, the juices contain nicotine (even if they say they don't), they have toxic chemicals such as formaldehyde.
400
Identify two signs of alcoholism.
Drinking every day, drinking in the morning, becoming moody or irritable after drinking or when not drinking.