Drugs of Abuse
The intentional improper or unsafe use of a drug
What is drug abuse?
Drugs that are inhaled as vapors and have the potential to have medical purposes but are mainly used recreationally
What are inhalants?
Drugs that cause relaxation and dizziness
What are depressants?
These include drug-related car accidents, loss of job productivity, and disease (hint: these affect who?)
What is the effects on drug abuse on those around you?
The plant from which cocaine and crack cocaine is made which is grown in South America
What is the coca plant?
Many drugs of abuse are classified as this in regards to the law
What is illegal?
These include slowed thinking ability, distorted sense of time and distance, and increased appetite
What are effects or marijuana?
Ryphonol, the most commonly used date-rape drug, is also called this
What is roofies?
These include premature birth, low birth weight, developmental problems, and experiencing drug withdrawal (neonatal abstinence syndrome)
What is the risks/effects on babies exposed to drugs in the womb?
This is the active ingredient in marijuana
What is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)?
The taking of too much of a drug, which causes sickness, loss of consciousness, permanent health damage, or even death
What is an overdose?
Also called pot or weed, this is the dried flowers and leaves from the plant Cannabis sativa
What is marijuana?
This drug, commonly called meth, crystal, or ice, usually appears as yellow or white crystals called "rocks" that are crushed and then either smoked, inhaled, or injected
What is methamphetamine?
This is what you say to drugs
What is "no"?
With illegal drug use that involves needles, there is a risk of catching one of these sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
What is hepatitis B or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)?
This is a reason why people begin to use drugs
What is desire to experiment, desire to escape from depression or boredom, peer pressure, or enjoyment of risk-taking behaviors?
All illegal drugs have these three things in common
What is affects function of the brain, danger to health, and results in dependence and addiction?
This aspect of the body, regarding heroin, develops rapidly and the drug begins to lose its effectiveness, often prompting users to inject more to stay high
What is tolerance?
In both small and large cities, between 2/3 and 3/4 of people arrested for this type of crime were on drugs when the crime was committed
What is violent crime?
When prescribed, steroids are used for one of these reasons
What is treating muscle wasting in AIDS patients, to assist wound healing in the elderly, or to treat abnormally low testosterone levels in males?
Name two deadly incidents/events that illegal drugs are a factor in
What is suicides, motor vehicle accidents, or crimes?
Synthetic versions of the male hormone testosterone that are used to promote muscle development
What are anabolic steroids?
Chemically altered form of morphine that can be swallowed, snorted, smoked, or injected
What is heroin?
Give one of the goals of all drug addiction treatment programs
What is to battle dependency or battle the reasons the drug abuse started in the first place?
This is around the amount of money drug abuse costs the United States and each state annually (must give the correct amount to both to the last dime to receive points; no half credit)
What is $350 billion annually (federal) and $80 billion annually (states)