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This term describes drinking 4 (females) or 5 (males) standard drinks within about two hours
Binge Drinking
This describes harmful behaviours such as aggression, vandalism, or violence often linked to alcohol misuse.
Anti-social Behaviour
This term describes needing more of a drug to achieve the same effect.
Tolerance
A _____ is a substance other than food that changes the structure and functioning of the body
Drug
A drug created from coca leaves
Cocaine
Alcohol is classified as this type of drug because it slows down the central nervous system
Depressant
A permanent legal record resulting from serious alcohol-related violence may limit these future opportunities.
What are employment, travel, or education opportunities?
When alcohol is absorbed into the bloodstream and reaches the brain almost as soon as it is consumed it immediately slows the _______ _________ down.
Nervous System
Vaping of chemicals that are inhaled to get high is called?
Inhalants
Taking more of a drug than the body can tolerate.
Overdose
This organ is primarily responsible for breaking down alcohol in the body
Liver
This mental health condition can develop after traumatic alcohol-related incidents.
Anxiety or PTSD?
Repeated substance use leading to physical or psychological reliance is called this.
Addiction
_______ is a disease in which a person has a physical and psychological need for alcohol.
Alcoholism
Using alcohol in ways that are unhealthy, illegal or both is called?
Alcohol abuse
This short-term effect includes slowed reaction time and poor coordination
Impaired Motor Control
Drugs that make you think see and sense things are called?
Hallucinogens
Name an example of a club drug
Rohypnol, molly, ecstasy, meth
OTC are drugs found on the shelves of the local pharmacy or grocery stores. What does OTC stand for?
Over the Counter
It is necessary to drink ____ cups of water daily and more if participating in sports or exercise.
6-8
This part of the brain, still developing in teenagers, controls decision-making and impulse control.
Pre-frontal Cortex
Alcohol is the __ most common cause of death in the US
3rd
The average age people start experimenting with substances
13
The average age American people start smoking
15
An addictive stimulant in tobacco that affects the brain the same way as heroin or cocaine thus causing it to crave more.
Nicotine