DRUGS AND YOUR BODY
All of your traits, from your hair color to your eyesight, are influenced by these.
What are your genes?
Name three legal drugs.
What are cigarettes, alcohol and medicines?
People use marijuana to achieve this feeling often described as a feeling of elation, giddiness and relaxation.
What is high?
Smoking e-cigarettes daily doubles the risk of this.
What is heart attacks?
Commonly referred to as a "study drug" on college campuses.
What is Adderall or Ritalin?
One of the most important things you can do to decrease the risk of addiction from alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
What is do not begin to use these substances while your brain is still developing?
Name for a type of drug that slows a person down.
What is a depressant?
What is THC (tetrahydrocannabinol)?
This is the addictive substance in e-liquids.
What is nicotine?
The name for smoking oils (extracts) taken from the marijuana plant.
What is dabbing?
The age at which the brain is fully developed.
What is 25?
This type of drug is sniffed or "huffed" to give the user an immediate high.
What is an inhalant?
The length of time marijuana remains in the body.
What is one month?
*Urine tests can detect the presence for up to 8 hours (single use), hair test up to 4 months, saliva up to 10 days...depends on how much or how often it is used.
This device has become popular with youth and has captured 68% of the e-cigarette market.
What is JUUL?
Every day, this many Americans die from an opioid overdose.
What is 130?
*Over 47,000 Americans die each year from an opioid overdose.
This accounts for roughly half a person's likelihood of developing an addiction.
What is their genetics?
This type of drug dulls the body's senses and relieves pain.
What is a narcotic?
_____ is a slang term for a cigar filled with marijuana.
What is a blunt?
This is the minimum age for the sale of all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes.
What is 18?
Binge drinking is defined as drinking _____ or more drinks for women and _____ or more drinks for men in about 2 hours.
What are 4 and 5?
The two different factors that affect a person's risk for addiction.
What are environmental and biological?
This is generally an illegal drug, but some states allow doctors to prescribe it to people for certain illnesses, and some have passed laws making it legal to sell it to adults for personal use.
What is marijuana?
This is the plant that marijuana comes from.
What is cannabis?
Three of the many chemicals/toxins that have been detected in the vapor.
What are formaldehyde, lead and diacetyl.
*Others are nickel, tin, ultrafine particles and volatile organic compounds.
A chronic disease characterized by seeking and using a substance that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
What is addiction?