The rock form of cocaine. It is named after the sound it makes when smoked.
What is Crack-Cocaine
100
A brain disease that is defined as a continued compulsive use of drugs despite adverse consequences.
What is Addiction
100
The first step an addict has to take.
What is admitting he/she has a problem.
100
This drug poisions every organ in the body.
What is Alcohol
200
The cause of 1/3 of all babies born with mental retardation.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
200
The psychoactive ingrediant in marijuana.
What is THC, Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannibanol
200
The intense desire for drugs. This is the brains need to maintain homeostasis.
What is Cravings
200
A place where alcoholics can go to deal with their disease. Here they learn from other people who have delt with the disease, and how to live their life clean and sober using a 12-Step Programs.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous
200
These two drugs kill the most people each year in the United States.
What is Tobacco and Alcohol
300
When an individuals Blood Alcohol Levels rises to a dangerous point where (s)he loses consciousness, goes into a coma, or worse, dies.
What is Alcohol Poisoning
300
An expensive white power that comes from the leaves of the coca bush.
What is Cocaine
300
Needing more of a drug to get the same effect because the body has become more efficient at metabolizing it.
What is Tolerance.
300
This is the process of getting well. It is an ongoing process and for most people it will take a lifetime.
What is Recovery
300
The first thing to do when someone has Alcohol Poisoning.
What is Call 911
400
How many beers does it take to equal one shot.
What is one shot.
400
This drug effects are far reaching, impacting not only the user but the family, community, and environment. It is made from chemicals like Sudafed and battery acid.
What are Methamphetamines.
400
A classification of drugs that speed up the central nervous system activity (i.e., increases heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure).
What is a Stimulant.
400
The physical process associated with stopping a drug.
What is Withdrawal.
400
This drug is the most commonly used drug in sexual assaults.
What is Alcohol
500
Name 2 long term health problems assoicated with drinking a lot of alcohol.
What is cancer (mouth, breast, prostate, esophagus, stomach, ovaries, small intestine), liver disease, psychiatric problems.
500
A highly addictive drug made from the Asian Poppy Plant. Other drugs, such as Methadone and Suboxone, are used to help treat this addiction.
What is Heroin
500
A cancer-causing agent. There are many of these in Tobacco.
What is a Carcinogen.
500
Allowing a person to continue a dangerous behavior such as using drugs.
What is Enabling
500
This drug can decrease serotonin levels in the brain and increase the risk of depression. It can also cause extreme dehydration. The scientific name is MDMA.