Tobacco
True or False. 5 out of 10 middle school youth are currently smoking.
What is false?
One out of 10 8th graders are smoking
Using someone else's prescription medications for reasons other than which they were prescribed is illegal.
What is true?
Doctor's prescribe for specific person and condition. Using it for other people can be dangerous.
What is the legal drinking age for alcohol in the US?
What is 21?
When someone says they are sniffing, snorting, bagging, or huffing, what are they doing?
What is they are breathing inhalants to get high by snorting or spraying aerosols into mouth/nose?
Using a drug just one time will not hurt you. True or False?
What is False?
Illicit fentanyl is being added to many street drugs like cocaine, MDMA and heroin. It is involved in more American youth deaths than heroin, meth, cocaine, benzos and prescription drugs combined.
A lethal dose can be the size of a snowflake. 100 more potent that morphine and 50 times more strong than heroin.
It has been found in all 50 states and fastest growing deaths for youth, often consumed unknowingly.
Drug cartels add to drugs to make it cheaper, more powerful and more addictive.
True or False. Nicotine is as addictive as cocaine and heroin.
What is true?
Nicotine has been proven to be as addictive or more than cocaine/heroine.
Which of these over the counter medicines are used to get high?
Cold and Cough Medicines with cough suppressant
Antacids
Aspirin
Calcium supplement
What is cold and cough medicines?
It contains DXM (dextromethorphan) at higher doses is dangerous.
At least 9 out of 10 8th graders use alcohol.True or False?
About 25% of 8th graders report using alcohol or 1 in 4 people
Sniffing common household products can starve the body of oxygen and cause death. True or False.
What is true?
Inhalants can cause oxygen to be displaced in the lungs and then in the central nervous system which causes breathing to stop.
DEA reports that 6 out of 10 street pills have a lethal dose of fentanyl.
True or false?
What is true?
A snowflake amount of fentanyl can be lethal.
It's 100 times more potent that morphine.
Among 8th grade youth during the past year, about how many students were vaping?
A. One in 5
B. One in 10
C. One in 50
D. One in 100
What is one in 10? Or What is B.
How many 8th graders are using over the counter cold and cough medications to get high?
1 in 100
1 in 50
1 in 25
1 in 10
What is 1 in 50?
What does binge drinking mean?
What is heavy use of alcohol over a short period of time?
Which of these common household products can be used an an inhalant?
whipped cream dispensers
cooking spray
spray paint
All of them
What is all of the above?
Other inhalants are nail polish remover, hair spray, paint thinner...
When teens use drugs it can weaken the teens ability to feel happy naturally and cause lasting brain damage?
True or False
What is true?
Drugs affect the amygdala part of the brain which stimulates anxiety, irritability.
Marijuana long term use can lower brain performance, increased at using at an earlier age.
Opiates and alcohol may shrink the size of the memory and learning part of the brain called the hippocampus.
What is the main active chemical ingredient found in tobacco products?
What is nicotine?
(Nicotine is one of 4000 chemicals found in tobacco smoke. Over 250 have been found to be toxic and cause cancer.)
Addiction to nicotine can happen after 1-2 times.
Mixing over the counter (OTC) cold medicine with soda pop makes it less dangerous. True or false.
What is false?
It can cause vomiting, brain damage, seizures, strokes and even death.
Name something that can happen to you if you continuously drink too much alcohol.
What is..
some possible answers are: hurt your health, lose friends, get arrested, get in trouble with family/friends/law/school, get addicted
Smoking synthetic marijuana is the same as using natural marijuana. True or False?
What is false?
Synthetic ingredients can cause kidney failure, strokes and even death.
Which drug is made in labs in homes using common household ingredients?
What is methamphetamine?
It is made from common household ingredients. Most are very harmful to the human body.
Vaping can cause lung damage after only 3 days of use. True or false?
What is true?
Vaping has harmful chemicals that can cause cancer, irritate the bronchi, increase blood pressure, increase heart rate and restrict blood to heart, restricting arteries.
Why is mixing medications together or mixing medications with alcohol dangerous?
What is it causes drug interactions that can be serious and dangerous?
Drinking alcohol at an early age increases your chances of becoming dependent.
True or false?
What is true?
Teens who start drinking at age 15 are 6x more likely to become dependent than those who start at 21.
What is the main active chemical in marijuana?
What is THC?
Children under 14 are dying of fentanyl poisoning faster than any other age group.
True or False
What is true?
Fentanyl related deaths occur every 5 minutes. It is the number one killer of adults from ages 18-45.