Vocabulary
Dangers of Common Substances
Marijuana and Cocaine
WILDCARD
Medicines Affect the Body
100
The amount of medicine you should take at one time
What is dose?
100
True or False: Only prescription medicines can be harmful.
What is false; the misuse of any medicine can be harmful whether it is OTC or prescription!
100
True or False: Marijuana is made of one substance only.
What is false; marijuana has over 400 other substances in it.
100
True or False: Marijuana is another name for Cocaine.
False; they are two different, illegal drugs producing different effects on the body
100
These are unwanted changes in the body caused by a medicine.
What are side effects?
200
A drug found in coffee, tea, chocolate, and soft drinks
What is caffeine?
200
These are drinks that have caffeine
What is soda, coffee, and sports drinks (Gatorade.)
200
An illegal drug means that it is against the law to do these three things with a substance.
What is buy, sell, or use the drug.
200
The term meaning the process that someone goes through when they stop using drugs.
What is recovery?
200
This is a substance other than food that changes the way the body works.
What is a drug?
300
Substances that give off fumes and can be dangerous when breathed in
What are inhalants?
300
This is defined as a craving that makes a person use a drug even when he or she knows that it is harmful.
What is addiction?
300
Drug ________ is when a drug abuser feels the need to take a drug just to feel normal.
What is dependence?
300
This drug causes confusion, anger, changes in the way a user feels, nervousness, sadness, sleeplessness, seizures, the user's heart to work harder, high blood pressure, heart attack, trouble breathing, lung damage, and even cancer.
What is cocaine?
300
These are three things that medicines do.
What is to prevent, to treat, or to cure?
400
When friends try to persuade you to try something, even when you refuse, you are experiencing this.
What is peer pressure?
400
These are side affects of inhalants.
What is clumsiness, headache, nausea, confusion, and memory loss?
400
This drug is from the coca plant.
What is cocaine?
400
These are what and how the use of drugs effects people other than the user.
Who are family, friends, and the community; family, because the family is often hurt by the person due to poor judgement/ and community members because of tax dollars being spent on the jail and hospital expenses
400
These are the two types of medicines.
What are prescription medicines and over-the-counter medicines?
500
The feeling you have about yourself when you like yourself.
What is self-respect.
500
These are the three times when medicine can be harmful.
What is when people take too much of them, when people take them too often, and when people take them for the wrong reason?
500
Marijuana comes from this plant.
What is the hemp plant?
500
***ROLE PLAY***
Possible responses: I don't need drugs to feel good about myself, I don't want to hurt my body, I want to reach my goals, I don't want anything that will hurt my future, I don't want to hurt my family, It's against the law, I have better things to do, If you are trying to get me to use drugs then you are not my friend.
500
In 1972, this important law was passed that greatly lowered the rates of children being poisoned by medicines.
What was the law requiring safety caps on medicines?
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