LIFE'S TERMS
The process of overcoming addiction, achieving and maintaining abstinence, and improving overall well-being and quality of life.
What is Recovery?
How can smoking marijuana affect your lungs?
Smoking can damage the lungs. Smoking marijuana can put carcinogenic tar and other toxins into your lungs. This increases the risk of bronchitis, chronic inflammation (chronic coughing or wheezing) & lung cancer.
GRASS, MARY JANE, PURPLE HAZE, DEVILS LETTUCE, REEFER, CHRONIC OR WEED?
What is also known as...MARIJUANA?
Is it legal to take someone else’s prescription medication?
NO! Prescription medication is only legal for the person for whom it is prescribed. It is also illegal to sell your own or someone else’s prescription medication.
What is Thanksgiving?
The process of removing toxic substances from the body, often the initial step in addiction treatment to manage withdrawal symptoms.
What is Detoxification? (Detox, Withdrawal Management)
Makeshift pipes such as those made out of light-bulbs, soft drink cans, or broken off glass pipe stems can lead to what?
Cuts, burns, and mercury poisoning.
SPEED, PEP PILLS, PIXIES, DIET PILLS, BLACK BEAUTIES, BENNIES, ZOOMERS?
What is also known as...Amphetamine?
TRUE OR FALSE? Is it safe to use dollar bills (cash, money, banknotes) to snort drugs?
FALSE: Using banknotes to snort substances can lead to bacterial and/or fungal infections.
NOS, GLUE, POPPERS, OR WHIPPETS?
What are also known as...INHALANTS?
A planned and structured process where loved ones confront an addicted individual to encourage them to seek help and treatment.
(Hint: It is the name of a TV Show)
What is an Intervention?
What are some things long-term cocaine snorting can cause to your body?
Long-term cocaine snorting can cause damage of the structure of the nose, erosion of the septum and in severe cases can lead to palatal perforation, which is a hole in the roof of your mouth.
CHINA WHITE OR BLACK TAR?
What is also known as...HEROIN?
TRUE OR FALSE? Cannabis is natural. If it comes from a plant, it must be safe?
FALSE: The chemicals found in cannabis impact brain development and mental health, regardless of how it is consumed (smoked, eaten, vaped, etc.). In addition, cannabis smoke has cancer-causing toxins that can cause damage to the lungs if smoked or vaped and can cause impairment that can lead to injury.
According to a 2012 study of people in treatment for alcohol dependence, which gender was more likely to report that their most serious suicide attempt happened during heavy drinking—men or women?
Men (80.2% of men compared to 43.8% of women)
A set of strategies and interventions aimed at reducing the negative consequences of addictive behaviors or substance use when complete abstinence is not achievable.
What is Harm Reduction?
What are the risks of mixing energy drinks and alcohol?
Alcohol is considered a depressant or downer and energy drinks are uppers with high amounts of caffeine in them. Mixing uppers and downers can increase the risk of overdose or alcohol poisoning.
DAILY DOUBLE: The original recipe of this canned alcoholic beverage once contained large amounts of caffeine.
M30S, BLUES, OR DIRTY 30S?
What is also known as...COUNTERFEIT OXYCODONE PILLS CONTAINING FENTANYL?
Which is the least harmful (safest) way of taking a substance: eating, smoking, or injecting?
Eating, because it takes longer for the body to absorb it and it can also be puked or pumped out if necessary.
DAILY DOUBLE: Why are smoking and injecting substances more harmful?
A slang term for "Synthetic Cannabinoids."
What is Spice?
Behavior that supports or allows an addicted individual to continue their addictive patterns by minimizing consequences or facilitating access to the substance or behavior.
What are three (3) side effects of using Molly (MDMA)?
Jaw clenching, teeth grinding, enlarged pupils, nausea, tightened muscles, sweating, chills, increased heart rate, increased blood pressure and body temperature, dehydration, shaking, next-day sleepiness.
BRUNO MARS, GINA, MONKEY JUICE, OR G?
What is also known as...GHB (Gamma-Hydroxybutyric Acid)?
TRUE OR FALSE? Marijuana isn't addictive.
FALSE: Chronic marijuana use can lead to addiction. Research shows that approximately 9 percent, or about 1 in 11, of those who use marijuana will become addicted. This goes up to 17 percent in those who start using while young (in their teens) and increases to 25-50 percent of daily users. (National Institute on Drug Abuse. National Institutes of Health.)
During the 2000s and early 2010s, which caused more overdose deaths in the U.S.—prescription opioids (like hydrocodone and oxycodone) or the combined total of heroin and cocaine?
Prescription opioids caused more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined.