This person is frequently in the grip of a powerful craving for alcohol, a need that can feel as strong as the need for food or water. While some people are able to recover without help, the majority need outside assistance to recover from their disease. Yet, with support and treatment, many are able to stop drinking and reclaim their lives.
What is an alcoholic?
100
These are some other commonly known names for Marijuana. (Name at least 1)
What is Weed, Pot, Bud, Grass, Herb, Mary Jane, MJ, Reefer, Skunk, Boom, Gangster, Kif, Chronic, and Ganja?
100
Chemicals found in ordinary household or workplace products that people inhale on purpose to get “high.”
What is an Inhalant?
100
A person tries the drug for the first time.
What is First Use?
100
This is someone you could turn to in your school for help and advice.
What is your school counsellor or teacher?
200
Alcohol use by anyone under the age of 21 is called this.
What is Underaged Drinking?
200
Because of concerns over the possible harm to the developing teen brain, marijuana use by people under this age is prohibited in all states.
What is 21?
200
The chemicals found in inhalant products can drastically change the way this body part works.
What is the Brain?
200
It takes more of the drug to get high.
What is Tolerance?
200
For over 55 years, this program, which includes teens, has been offering strength and hope for friends and families of problem drinkers.
What is AL-ANON / ALATEEN ?
300
This syndrome caused by excessive consumption of alcohol by the mother during pregnancy, characterized by retardation of mental development and of physical growth, particularly of the skull and face of the infant.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
300
Of the more than 500 chemicals in marijuana, this particular chemical is responsible for many of the drug’s psychotropic (mind-altering) effects. It’s this chemical that changes brain activity, distorting how the mind perceives the world.
What is THC?
300
These inhalants are liquids that become a gas at room temperature.
What are Volatile Solvents?
300
The person keeps using the drug to feel a certain way.
What is Continued Use?
300
This program is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
400
In 2013, this disease caused 72,559 deaths among individuals aged 12 and older, 45.8 percent involved alcohol.
What is liver disease?
400
Marijuana triggers an increase in the activity of the endocannabinoid system, which causes the release of this chemical in the brain's reward centers, creating the pleasurable feelings or “high.”
What is Dopamine?
400
Inhalants often contain more than one chemical. Some chemicals leave the body quickly, but others stay for a long time and get absorbed by fatty tissues in the brain and central nervous system. Over the long term, the chemicals can cause serious problems in these two areas of the body.
What are Nerve Fibers and Brain Cells?
400
The person will get sick without the drug.
What is Dependence?
400
This is the largest drug prevention campaign in the nation. It was instituted in 1988 with President and Mrs. Reagan serving as honorary chairpersons. It is traditionally celebrated during the last two weeks of October.
What is Red Ribbon Week?
500
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which conducts the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), defines this as drinking 5 or more alcoholic drinks on the same occasion on at least 1 day in the past 30 days.
What is binge drinking?
500
Certain parts of the brain have a lot of cannabinoid receptors. These areas are the hippocampus, the cerebellum, the basal ganglia, and the cerebral cortex. The functions that these brain areas control are the ones most affected by marijuana. (Name 3)
What are Learning & Memory, Coordination and Judgment?
500
People who use inhalants breathe in the fumes through their nose or mouth, usually by ...
What is (any of the following answers)
• “Sniffing” or “snorting” fumes from containers
• Spraying aerosols directly into the nose or mouth
• Sniffing or inhaling fumes from substances sprayed or placed into a plastic or paper bag (“bagging”)
• “Huffing” from an inhalant-soaked rag stuffed in the mouth
• Inhaling from balloons filled with nitrous oxide
500
The person can't stop using the drug, even when the drug use causes serious problems.
What is Addiction?
500
If you need information on treatment and where you can find it, you can call this resource.
What is Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator at 1-800-662-HELP ?