Vocabulary
A behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse social, psychological, and/or physical consequences, and a need for an increased amount of the substance, as time goes on, to achieve the same effect.
What is addiction
Every year, worldwide, alcohol is the cause of 1 in __ deaths
What is 20
This drug is the #_ grug in America
What is 1
___ are more likely to get drunk than woman
What is men
Pain killers, tranquilizers and stimulants are the most commonly abused ____________ drugs.
What is perscription
A common reaction of people with substance use disorders who, when confronted with the existence of those disorders, deny that they have a substance abuse problem and/or have lost control of it.
What is denial
_ million Americans misused prescription opioids for the first time in 2017.
What is 2
Marijuana can be used by what 3 things?
What is drinking, smoking, and eating
Among teenagers ages 12-17 alcohol use of them is __% of participants reported currently using alcohol
What is 10
__ is the average age children experiment with drugs.
What is 13
The metabolic process by which the toxic qualities of a poison or toxin are reduced by the body. Pertaining to addiction it is generally a medically supervised treatment for alcohol or drug addiction designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances
What is detox
Almost 21 million Americans have at least one addiction, yet only ___ of them receive treatment.
What is 10%
Marijuana directly affects what part of the bosy
What is the brainn
_____ ________ is having 5 or more drinks on one occasion in the past month for males, or four drinks for females.
What is drink binge drinking
Over __% of all traffic accidents involve alcohol or drugs.
What is 50
A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse.
What is a trigger
From 1999 to ____, 399,230 Americans lost their lives to opioids.
What is 2017
Marijuana __________ impacts school
What is negatively
Every __ minutes, a person in the United States dies from motor vehicle accidents related to alcohol use.
What is 50
__ of 35 alcoholics have never received treatment.
What is 34
Normal neurobiological event characterized by the need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect. A state in which a drug produces a diminishing biological or behavioral response; in other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same effect experienced initially.
What is tolerance
Since 1999, the sale of opioid painkillers has skyrocketed by ___%.
What is 300
__% of highschool students report having used marijuana.
What is 38
_____ Americans are the least likely to drink of all ethnic groups
What is Asian
More that $__ billion is lost annually due to substance abuse.
What is 60