CATEGORY 1: Vocabulary
This term means using a chemical substance improperly or unnecessarily.
Answer: What is substance abuse?
This category of drugs increases alertness, energy, and body temperature.
Answer: What are stimulants?
This stimulant drug is known for causing “meth mouth.”
Answer: What is methamphetamine?
This short-term effect of marijuana increases desire for food.
Answer: What is increased appetite (the “munchies”)?
This influence comes from people your age.
Answer: What is peer pressure?
These drugs cannot legally be manufactured, sold, or used.
Answer: What are illegal drugs?
Alcohol belongs to this category of drugs.
Answer: What are depressants?
This opioid is derived from morphine and appears as a white or brown powder.
Answer: What is heroin?
This condition occurs when someone stops using a drug they are dependent on and feels symptoms like nausea, chills, and headaches.
Answer: What is withdrawal?
Coaches, celebrities, and professionals who avoid drugs serve as these influential examples.
Answer: What are role models?
This occurs when the body needs more and more of a drug to feel the same effect.
Answer: What is tolerance?
Heroin and fentanyl belong to this group of pain-relieving drugs.
Answer: What are narcotics/opioids?
This drug is a more addictive, smokable form of cocaine.
Answer: What is crack cocaine?
This deadly reaction can happen even the first time someone uses inhalants.
Answer: What is sudden sniffing death?
Messages about drug use on TV, music, and social media fall under this influence.
Answer: What are media messages?
This type of dependence occurs when a person believes they need a drug to function or feel good.
Answer: What is psychological dependence?
LSD and psilocybin fall under this drug category.
Answer: What are hallucinogens?
This hallucinogen is commonly sold on blotter paper.
Answer: What is LSD?
This serious risk of heroin and fentanyl overdose can slow breathing until a person stops.
Answer: What is respiratory depression?
Family members can help teens resist drug use by doing this.
Answer: What is discouraging drug experimentation?
This is a strong, sometimes fatal reaction caused by taking too much of a drug.
Answer: What is an overdose?
This category includes THC-containing products such as marijuana.
Answer: What is cannabis?
This extremely potent synthetic opioid often requires multiple doses of naloxone.
Answer: What is fentanyl?
MDMA use at parties and raves carries this dangerous overheating risk.
Answer: What is hyperthermia (or dehydration/heat stroke)?
Nearly this percentage of high school students do NOT use drugs, according to the Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
Answer: What is 70%?