What part of the poppy are opioids extracted from?
What is the seed pod.
100
What percentage of college students are considered to be alcohol dependent?
What is 6%
100
Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective disorder generally make themselves known at this age range.
Early to late 20's.
100
Give three examples of a benzodiazepine.
Xanax, Klonopin, Vallium, etc.
100
What category of drugs are often used as date rape drugs?
Benzos
200
What percentage of Americans aged 12 or older have used heroin at some point in their lives?
What is 1.6%
200
What racial group is most affected by alcoholism?
Native Americans
200
What percentage of adults will develop some sort of mental illness in their lifetime?
50%
200
Benzos affect what part of the body?
Central Nervous System
200
What characterizes a "designer drug"?
Drugs that are created in an "underground" or illegal laboratory. Changes are made to drugs that are otherwise produced. Examples: MDMA (Ecstasy), ketamine, GHB, Rohypnol, LSD (acid), and methamphetamine
300
What is the average amount spent on heroin by a user over the course of one day?
What is $150-$250.
300
How many people in the U.S. are currently affected by alcoholism?
What is 15 million
300
What state has the highest depression rate?
Mississippi
300
True or False: Benzodiazepines can be prescribed by doctors for patients withdrawing from alcohol.
True
300
This type of substance is the leading cause of overdose deaths in the U.S.
What are Opiates (Pain pills not heroin).
400
When heroin enters the brain, it is converted back into ____, which binds to molecules on cells known as ____ ____.
What is Morphine and Opioid Receptors.
400
What area of the brain that is responsible for the self control to stop drinking is damaged by alcohol?
What is the hippocampus
400
True or False: Cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes all increase the likelihood of depression.
True
400
What amount of time (range) does it take for most benzo users to experience withdrawals?
2-4 weeks
400
What makes designer drugs so dangerous?
They are often created and accidentally mixed in a lab where other drugs are being modified.
500
A condition typical in heroin overdoses in which there is a lack of oxygen delivered to the brain due to lack of breathing.
What is Hypoxia.
500
In what two major middle eastern countries is alcohol illegal?
What is Saudi Arabia and Iran
500
True or False: Mental Illness accounts for more registries of being a disabled person that any physical disability.
True
500
What type of receptors in the brain do benzos affect?
GABA receptors.
500
What percentage of Americans sought drug/alcohol treatment in 2009?