Facts About Drugs
Medicine
Illegal Drugs
Drug Abuse and Addiction
Miscellaneous
100
One of these is NOT a drug: caffeine, alcohol, water, or medicine.
What is water?
100
True or false: medicine is a drug that is used to cure, treat, or prevent pain, disease and illness.
What is true?
100
This is the name for a drug that can possibly lead the user to try a stronger type of drug.
What is a gateway drug? (Like tobacco or alcohol)
100
Which people can get addicted to drugs: teens, adults, criminals, children, or anyone?
Who is anyone?
100
Name a drug that is legal only for adults.
What are alcohol or tobacco?
200
True or false? How much a person weighs does not affect how much of a drug you might need.
What is false. (The lower the body weight, the less of a drug a person needs-- read the label carefully!)
200
These drugs can be bought without a prescription.
What is over-the-counter (OTC)?
200
This drug has many names and is most commonly smoked.
What is marijuana?
200
This means taking too much of a legal drug (on purpose), or trying any illegal drug.
What is drug abuse?
200
Name one drug that is legal for all people.
What is caffeine?
300
This is a common drug found in drinks like pop, tea and coffee.
What is caffeine? (Energy drinks were not made for kids!)
300
The type of medicines that can only be bought with a doctor's written order. Usually you would get them from a pharmacist.
What is a prescription?
300
These drugs speed up your heart rate and brain.
What are stimulants?
300
This is when a person needs more of a drug to feel its effects.
What is tolerance?
300
The type of drugs typically made by Perrigo's: prescription, illegal, or over-the-counter (OTC).
What are OTC?
400
This is the drug found in tobacco that gets people hooked.
What is nicotine? (Found in ALL tobacco products: pipe, cigarette and chewing tobacco, and e-cigarettes.)
400
These drugs slow down your heart rate and brain.
What are depressants?
400
This is the body's reaction to not having a drug that it is used to having. It is not pleasant.
What is withdrawl?
400
Name a common depressant. You must be 21 to purchase it.
What is alcohol?
500
Name three drugs that are illegal for all people.
Answers will vary.
500
Name three or more things a medicine label must have on it.
What are: who can take it, the ages of people to take it, how much to take, when to take it, and how to take it.
500
These drugs have strong odors or fumes and are abused by breathing them in. They can cause nose bleeds and brain damage.
What are inhalants?
500
People can get help to overcome addictions and go on to lead normal lives. This is what it this process is called.
What is recovery?
500
Name a common stimulant that in high doses may lead to heart attacks.
What is caffeine?
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