Drugs 1
The name of the opioid drug produced in 1898
What is Heroin?
Drug used in WWII to keep troops awake
What is Methamphetamine?
What substance may produce life threatening withdrawals
What is Alcohol?
A natural way to get in shape and increase feelings of happiness
What is Exercise?
A strong desire to consume a particular substance is
What is a craving?
Opioids are commonly made in labs, but what else can opioids be made from?
What is the Poppy flower?
True or False: If you want to use someone else's needle, cleaning it with bleach makes it totally safe
False
Hep C lives up to 63 days in a needle or 2 weeks outside a needle. Bleaching has been proven NOT to be effective.
The name of withdrawal symptoms that cause tremors or seizures.
What is Delirium Tremens?
Needing more of a drug to get the same effect
What is tolerance?
Name a well-known support group associated with Alcoholism
What is Alcoholic's Anonymous?
What are some common side effects of opioids? Name at least three
What is sedation, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, constipation, dry mouth, respiratory depression?
What two legal substances account for the majority of deaths in the Western world
What is Alcohol and Tobacco?
SSDS is
What is Sudden Sniffing Death Sydrome?
Abnormal physical or psychological features that follow the abrupt discontinuation of a drug.
What is withdrawal?
Approx. 1/3 of all traffic fatalities in the United States is cause by
What is Drunk Drivers?
What is Naloxone? or What is Narcan?
Sulfuric Acid used in drain cleaners, considered to be highly corrosive, is an ingredient of
What is Methamphetamine?
Memory disorder that results from Vitamin B1 deficiency and is associated with Alcoholism
What is Korsakoff Syndrome?
involved in approx. 50% of psychosis, schizophrenia, and schizophreniform psychosis cases
What is Cannabis?
A chronic disease of brain reward system
What is Addiction?
What was the pharmaceutical company that created Heroin in 1898?
What is the Bayer Company?
Lethal overdose of Heroin is considered to be 100mg, Cocaine overdose is considered to be at 250mg. A lethal dose of 2mg is associated with this drug
What is Fentanyl?
Degenerative brain disorder caused by lack of Thiamine (B1)
What is Wernicke Encephalopathy?
A 28 day injection used to treat opioid and alcohol use disorder?
What is Vivatrol?
Jaw clenching, teeth grinding, nausea, tightened muscles, sweating, chills, increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, body temperature increase, shaking, death.
What is Ecstasy?