Drugs I
Name of synthetic marijuana often sold as "potpourri"
What is K-2 or Spice?
TRUE OR FALSE: Substances (alcohol and other drugs) are the number one killer of Americans under the age of 50.
What is TRUE?
Tobacco can be contributed to about ______ deaths in the Unite States each year. * 125,000 * 240,000 * 480,000
What is 480,000?
Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure.
TRUE OR FALSE:
Mixing alcohol with driving isn’t the only deadly combination out there.
What is Marijuana?
Marijuana is the most common illegal drug found in drivers who die in automobile accidents.
What BAC stands for.
What is Blood Alcohol Concentration?
What someone has to a substance, that makes them have to take more and more of, in order to get the same effect.
What is tolerance?
By mimicking the brain's natural chemicals, substances are able to rewire this area of the brain and cause further substance-seeking.
What is the reward/pleasure center?
Dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens is so consistently tied with pleasure that neuroscientists refer to the region as the brain's pleasure center.
Potential symptoms: irritability, sleeping difficulties, anxiety, and cravings for the substance?
What is marijuana withdrawal?
This is how long it takes the body to process and excrete one standard drink of alcohol.
What is 2 hours?
Known by this common name, this category of substances are similar to amphetamines and Ecstasy. They are often sold in small plastic or foil packets labeled "Not for human consumption" and may cause severe psychotic symptoms.
What are bath salts?
This two substance combination is the most common one to result in death.
What are prescription painkillers and alcohol?
TRUE OR FALSE: Marijuana use is now legal in the state of Maryland.
What is FALSE?
It has been decriminalized, meaning that use is not legal. It means that possession of fewer than 10 grams is a legal issue similar to a driving ticket, for first-time offenders.
This is the amount of pure alcohol that is in a single standard drink.
What is 14 grams/0.6 ounces/1.2 tablespoons?
This substance is the most likely to cause overdose (and overdose cases have been on the rise in the San Francisco Bay Area.
What is fentanyl?
Withdrawal from either of these two substances could result in death and should be medically monitored.
What are alcohol and benzodiazepines?
Diazepam, or Valium: This is an anxiety-reducing, hypnotic, sedative, and anticonvulsant drug that acts rapidly. It is used to treat panic attacks, insomnia, seizures, restless leg syndrome, and alcohol withdrawal.
More than 16 million Americans are living with a disease caused by smoking. (True or False)
What is true
Ways that marijuana affect school or work performance.
What are by affecting attention, memory, and learning and also decreasing motivation?
These are the first two functions to be affected/impaired by alcohol consumption.
What are reason and judgment?
People who have used Ecstasy risk death from dehydration for this reason.
What is masking the natural alarm signals of the body which would alert the person to dehydration?
These are the five stages of the addiction process for any substance.
What are: experimentation, occasional/social use, regular use, problem use, addiction?
The temperature that cigarette smoke can reach during inhalation.
What is over 1,600*F?
THC is absorbed into this part of the body, meaning that it can still be detected in urinalyses, even weeks after last use in heavy users.
What are fatty tissues and organs?
These are the five factors affecting one's level of alcohol intoxication.
What are: weight, gender, food, type of mixer, and strength of drink?