alcohol
true or false? Excessive drinking can increase testosterone in a man’s body and cause heightened sexual potency.
False. Drinking lowers testosterone level and causes impotence.
True or false? examples of opioids include Percocet and Xanax.
False!
true or false? Opioids aren’t addicting when taken legitimately for pain.
FALSE! These drugs can become addicting regardless of the reason they’re started.
Most cocaine-related deaths aren’t from the pharmacological effect of the drug; they’re caused by homicide, suicide, and car accidents.
true
true or false? According to one national survey on drug use, each day approximately 600 Americans try marijuana for the first time
false, 6000*
true or false: Withdrawal symptoms can’t kill you.
False. Alcohol withdrawal can absolutely kill. Withdrawal seizures and “DT’s” are medical emergencies.
In the 1900’s, what medication (or illnesses) was heroin used for/in?
what is cough syrups and remedies for infant colic and insomnia.
true or false? People die from opiate overdose because they can’t breathe properly.
True
There are about how many known active drug smuggling organizations in Colombia today.(closest guess)
what's the primary active ingredient in marijuana?
Ingredient is THC, or delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol.
True or false: 500 Americans lose their lives to alcohol each year.
false: False. 90,000 people die; that’s like losing the whole population of Miami
true or false? Opioid and opiate are the same thing.
True, for the most part
Name 3 long-term effects of heroin on our health
Three of the most common long-term effects of heroin are heart disease, HIV, Skin and heart infections, clots, liver failure, and liver cancer are other problems. and hepatitis.
After heroin, cocaine is the second most commonly used illicit drug in the US.
False. Cocaine is used more often than heroin; in fact, second to marijuana, it’s the most common drug on the street.
how many percent of U.S. teens will have tried marijuana at least once in their lifetime (closest guess)
45% of teens
true or false? The Department of Health & Human Services recommend maximum alcohol intake of 4 drinks/day with no more than 20 drinks/week.
False. Maximum recommendation is 14 drinks/week. For women it’s lower. A “drink” is equivalent to one 12-ounce beer (5% alcohol)
true/false? Naloxone (also called Narcan) helps with opioid withdrawal symptoms.
False. Narcan is used to “wake” a person up after an overdose. It can cause withdrawal.
true or false? The overdoses rate has decreased since doctors started restricting prescription opiates.
False. Many prescription abusers are turning to heroin or fentanyl.
Every day, how many Americans try cocaine for the very first time.(closest guess)
2500
true or false? Studies have shown that marijuana has a high risk of causing lung cancer.
false!!!
true or false? If you’re under 21 in Missouri, it’s illegal to take out the garbage if there’s an empty bottle of alcohol inside.
True. You get arrested for possession.
How many times more potent is fentanyl than heroin? (will take closest answer)
Fentanyl is 25 – 50 times more potent than heroin
in 2015, the Cartel spiked their heroin with what drug to make it stronger, causing dozens of addicts to accidentally overdose and die.
fentanyl!
in 2015, this incident Heroin was laced with Fentanyl, and almost 1000 people died. More than 4000 people had Fentanyl-related seizures. Now the problem is Fentanyl-laced cocaine.
Cocaine is sometimes used in combination with heroin, a practice known as this, which significantly increases the risk of overdose.
Marijuana accounts for 48% of drug arrests