Drug Classification
This type of drug speeds up the body's functions, causing you to feel more alert and energetic, but also may cause heart attacks and seizures.
What is Stimulants?
The "feel good" chemical messenger in the brain.
What is Dopamine?
This substance is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
What is cigarettes (tobacco)?
The trait of being answerable to someone
for something or being accountable for
one's conduct.
What is Responsibility?
A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.
What is Recovery?
This type of drug causes you to see, hear, or feel things that aren't really there.
What is Hallucinogens?
The "high" or intense excitement/ happiness caused by using drugs.
What is Euphoria?
This substance comes in a white powder or clear crystal form and is created in illegal labs that have the potential to explode due to the dangerous combination of chemicals used to make it.
What is Methamphetamine?
Power affecting a person, thing, or course of events, without any direct or apparent effort.
What is Influence?
True or False:
You have to learn what makes you want to take drugs again, so you can avoid those things (triggers such as people, places, things, smells, events).
What is True?
If combined with other medication that also causes drowsiness, this type of drug can slow your heart rate and breathing, potentially leading to death.
What is Depressants?
The need to use more and more of the drug in order to create the same “high” feeling.
What is Tolerance?
The standard drink for this substance is 1.5 fluid ounces.
What is a shot of liquor?
A person's principles or standards of behavior;
one's judgment of what is important in life.
What is values?
The full name of the two most popular 12 Step Programs.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous?
This type of drug has increased the strength of its addictive chemical over the years, causing it to be one of the most popular "gateway drugs."
What is Cannabis?
Chemical messengers in the brain that send electrical signals from nerve to nerve and tell your body what to do.
What is Neurotransmitters?
This drug is commonly marketed to look like candy, but frequently contains a wide mixture of dangerous substances- from LSD, cocaine, and heroin, to rat poison, caffeine, and dog deworming substances.
What is MDMA?
This behavior, such as drug or alcohol use, tends to feel good in the moment, but has long-term negative consequences.
What is unhealthy coping strategies?
Using drugs when you're young increases your chances of this when you get older.
What is Becoming Addicted?
This type of drug not only relieves pain but is the cause of an increase in overdose deaths due to the newest popular substance of abuse, fentanyl.
What is Narcotics?
This is what happens to someone after repeated drug use, which is a result of the brain no longer making natural dopamine.
What is not feel any pleasure?
This highly addictive substance is a type of painkiller that is often mixed with the dangerous opioid called fentanyl.
What is Heroin?
These are the steps in the Decision-Making Model.
What is Stop, Think, Act, Reflect?
These are the Four Stages of Substance Abuse.
What is 1) Experimentation, 2) Regular Use, 3) Tolerance, and 4) Dependency & Addiction?