Opiate Crisis History
This prescription medication hit the markets in 1996 after an aggressive sales campaign. It was marketed towards chronic-pain patients.
What is oxycontin?
his substance kills on average 88,000 individuals a year, making it the 3rd leading preventable cause in the United States.
What is Alcohol?
This depressant has Withdrawal symptoms including nausea, shaking, hallucinations, and seizures. Can be fatal.
What is Alcohol?
A mental illness that brings severe high and low moods and changes in sleep, energy, thinking, and behavior
What is Bipolar?
Individuals who carry their Big Book around, quote it constantly, and will beat you over the head if need be.
What is a Big Book Thumper?
This mega pharmaceutical company is considered one of the main causes of the opiate crisis.
Who is Purdue Pharma?
The leading cause of death for men under 50
What is drug overdose?
This stimulant has Withdrawal symptoms include excessive hunger, fatigue, irritability, insomnia, and stomach cramps
What is cocaine?
A condition characterized by difficulties regulating emotion. People who experience this disorder feel emotions intensely and for extended periods of time, and it is harder for them to return to a stable baseline after an emotionally triggering event.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Individuals who mistake micromanaging and controlling behavior for sponsorship
Who are life managers/control freaks?
True or False
Since 1999, The opiate Crisis has claimed more lives than WWII, the Korean War, The Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm, and The Iraq War
This state has the highest death rate per 100k people for drug related overdoses.
What is West Virginia?
This drug has withdrawal symptoms that include flu-like symptoms, muscle cramps, and vomiting. Not fatal
What are opiates/heroin?
A condition characterized by persistent and excessive worry about a number of different things. People with this disorder may anticipate disaster and may be overly concerned about money, health, family, work, or other issues.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
A predator of sorts, and often has years of time in recovery. This person will often pursue people who are brand new in recovery, often with only days or weeks sober.
What is a 13th Stepper?
DAILY DOUBLE
Morphine was distilled from opium for the first time in what year. Plus or minus 10 years will be correct.
What is 1804? (1794-1814)
According to the CDC in 2018, this state had the highest number of deaths due to drug related overdoses at 5,348
What is California?
This drug causes side effects of disorientation, hallucinations, paranoia, delusions, and can lead to a drug induced psychosis
What is LSD?
DAILY DOUBLE
A disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event.
What is Post-traumatic Stress Disorder?
People who fire their psychiatrists and stop taking their meds, and who refuse pain medication no matter how many teeth they get pulled out. They don’t use mind-altering substances and they make sure everyone knows it.
What is the “No Matter What Club?” Will also accept Pacific Group
A group of Mexican Sugar Cane Farmers from Nayarit, Mexico migrated to the United States in the early 1980's. They introduced black tar heroin to middle sized cities in the United States. They used a pizza delivery like system to distribute the drugs.
Who are the Xalisco Boys?
According to the CDC, since 1999, _________ people have died from a drug related overdose. (Looking for a number. Plus or minus 50,000 will suffice.)
What is 750,000?
This drug releases so much serotonin that withdrawal and side effects are characterized by an extreme depression and anxiety
What is MDMA/Ecstasy?
A mild but long term form of depression
What is Dysthymia?
A popular new wave of “recovery” spearheaded by young people. This form of “recovery” is characterized by no alcohol or other substances. But regular use of marijuana and the occasional hallucinogen are permitted
What is Cali Sober?