Increased heart rate and blood pressure, but seizures, cardiac arrest and even death are a real risk with this drug.
What do Cocaine common side effects include?
200
In the United States, there are about 5,000 types of mushrooms. Of these, about ____ are responsible for most of the cases of mushroom poisoning.
What is 100?
200
Distort your visual perceptions and damage your sense of judgment. High doses can lead to loss of coordination, dizziness, nausea, hot flashes and hallucinations.
What can both liquid cough syrups and the tablet or capsule forms of medicine that containd DXM do?
300
Brain, stomach, liver, kidneys and muscles.
What does Alcohol damage?
300
To develop weakened verbal and communication skills, lowered learning capabilities and a shortened attention span.
What could Marijuana cause?
300
Scabs to form on your mucus membranes, damage your nasal septum (the thin wall that separates your left and right nostrils) and eventually make your nose collapse.
What does prolonged cocaine snorting cause?
300
By disrupting how your nerve cells and the neurotransmitter serotonin interact throughout the brain and spinal cord.
How do Mushrooms work?
300
It makes any activity potentially dangerous. When combined with alcohol or other drugs, it can lead to overdose and death
How physically devastating is DXM?
400
It can damage the part of your brain that controls coordination, memory, judgment and decision-making.
Which part of the brain does alcohol damage?
400
Marijuana smoke contains __% to __% more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco smoke.
What is 50% to 70%?
400
Panic attacks or episodes of full-blown paranoid psychosis
What do Cocaine users experience?
400
It becomes difficult to tell the difference between fantasy and reality. You may see, feel and hear things that don't exist. You can also have rapid and intense emotional mood swings.
What happens when you are on hallucinates?
400
Those that contain the ingredient DXM (dextromethorphan), which is used to treat cough, cold and flu symptoms.
What do the most commonly abused OTC drugs include?
500
Each year, approximately _____ people under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking.
What is 5,000 people?
This includes about 1,900 deaths from car accidents, 1,600 homicides, 300 suicides, and hundreds of other deaths due to accidents like falls, burns and drownings.
500
Marijuana use is on the decline, with teen lifetime use dropping since _____.
When was 2000?
500
__% of cocaine users think that their friends would disapprove of their habit.
What is 90%?
500
Flashbacks: feelings and thoughts that replay the effects of being on the drug.
What could suddenly and without warning, a few days or even a year later, the brain produce by ingesting Mushrooms?
500
A lifetime goal. People treated for drug addiction are vulnerable to relapse.