The F Word
Building a solid relationship with a higher power requires us actively exhibit what?
What is Faith?
Opioid receptors are also located in the brain’s reward center, where they cause a large release of what neurotransmitter?
What is Dopamine?
What is known as an herb in the mint family found in southern Mexico?
What is Salvia?
What year was the National Institute on Drug Abuse founded?
What is 1974?
What child star has since lost control of her life, including cocaine and alcohol abuse, DUI arrests, jail time and multiple stints in rehab
Who is Lindsey Lohan?
This medication is used to help relieve severe ongoing pain (such as due to cancer). It belongs to a class of drugs known as opioid (narcotic) analgesics. It works in the brain to change how your body feels and responds to pain.
What is Fentanyl?
What neurotransmitter plays a role in controlling our mood, aggression, sexual activity, sleep, and feelings of pain?
What is Serotonin?
Nearly 13,000 people died in 2015 from what type of overdoses?
What is Heroin?
What was the first drug in 1951 that the FDA approved for alcohol use disorder to help curb drinking symptoms?
What is Antibuse?
This actor first tried drugs at the young age of six, it wasn’t until 1996 that he faced his first drug-related arrest. He has since become active in the recovery community.
Who is Robert Downey Jr.?
The part of the brain known as the Amygdala is responsible for experiencing what?
What is Fear?
T/F
12 ounces of beer
8 ounces of malt liquor
5 ounces of table wine
1.5 ounces (a “shot”) of liquor
Are all the same serving size
What is True?
I am often referred to as Black Mamba, Bliss, Bombay Blue, Moon Rocks, Skunk, and Yucatan Fire. What am I?
What is Spice?
Binge drinking can be defined as a pattern of drinking that brings blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels to 0.08 g/dL. This typically occurs after how many drinks for men in a two hour setting?
What is 5?
Following a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease in 1991, this actor turned to alcohol as an escape.
Who is Michael J. Fox?
Most drugs target the brain’s reward system, activating a surge of dopamine that overwhelms the brain. This is also known as what?
What is a dopamine Flood?
What is MDMA short for?
What is methylenedioxymethamphetamine?
I affect a part of the brain called the limbic system, which controls mood. Long-term abuse of me can lead to aggressive behavior and extreme mood swings. What am I?
What are steroids?
What drug when used during pregnancy increases the chance of premature birth, low birth weight, breathing difficulties, low blood sugar, bleeding within the brain, and infant death. Babies can also be born addicted to this drug and can suffer from withdrawal symptoms.
What is heroin?
This actresses barbiturate overdose was allegedly a suicide attempt, reflecting her tumultuous personal problems.
Who is Marilyn Monroe?
What is a synonym for an emotional state or reaction?
What are Feelings?
Normally, dopamine gets recycled back into the cell that released it, thus shutting off the signal. Stimulants do what to cause a buildup of the neurotransmitter in the brain?
What is preventing dopamine from being recycled?
Of people ages 13 to 19, more than 1,700 of them were newly diagnosed with what in 2015?
What is HIV?
____ in 5 adults in the U.S. are diagnosed with a Mental Health condition.
What is 1?
This actress struggled with drug addiction for much of her life and died of a barbiturate overdose at age forty-seven.
Who is Judy Garland?