Tobacco
What is the most harmful substance in tobacco?
What is nicotine
"We admitted we were powerless over our addiction—that our lives had become unmanageable."
What is the 1st step in AA?
These drugs speed up the body’s nervous system and create a feeling of energy. They are also called “uppers” because of their ability to make you feel very awake.
What are stimulants?
Name an addictive medication that needs a prescription to be dispensed.
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___________influences us to buy certain things.
What is Advertisements and Ads
About how many chemicals are in Tobacco?
What is 4000
True or False: mixing alcohol with medication is safe.
FALSE
Another name for an illicit drug.
What is an illegal drug?
What are 2 health effects of prescription drugs?
Pain relief, drowsiness, nausea, constipation, euphoria, slowed breathing, death. Pregnancy: Miscarriage, low birth weight, neonatal abstinence syndrome. Older adults: higher risk of accidental misuse because many older adults have multiple prescriptions, increasing the risk of drug-drug interactions, and breakdown of drugs slows with age; also, many older adults are treated with prescription medications for pain. Risk of HIV, hepatitis, and other infectious diseases from shared needles.
Increased alertness, attention, energy; increased blood pressure and heart rate; narrowed blood vessels; increased blood sugar; opened-up breathing passages. High doses: dangerously high body temperature and irregular heartbeat; heart disease; seizures. Heart problems, psychosis, anger, paranoia.
Opioids are prescribed for
What is Post surgical pain Management of acute or chronic pain Cough or Diarrhea relief
By smoking, using "chew," a patch, or sniffing tobacco, someone can get this addictive drug inside their body.
What are methods of ingesting nicotine?
Three organs affected most by alcohol
What is Heart Liver Brain
Name 3 types of inhalants
What are Glues, Paint thinner, Gasoline, Laughing gas, Aerosol sprays
Name withdrawal sxs of prescription drugs.
Restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps ("cold turkey"), leg movements.
Depression, tiredness, sleep problems.
Who has a higher rate of illicit drug use?
What is men
Lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, increased risk of heart disease, which can lead to stroke or heart attack, other cancers such as leukemia, cataracts, and pneumonia.
What are effects of smoking tobacco?
True or False: Alcohol is a depressant.
True because it slows the function of the central nervous system. Alcohol actually blocks some of the messages trying to get to the brain. This alters a person's perceptions, emotions, movement, vision, and hearing. In very small amounts, alcohol can help a person feel more relaxed or less anxious.
This drug comes from the poppy plant, is highly addictive, and overdose sxs include slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and possible death.
What is heroin?
What puts someone more at risk for abusing prescription drugs?
What is Self-reported poor mental and/or physical health Delinquency Risk taking/Sensation seeking Other drug use Weak parental bonds Weak attachment to school Peer drug abuse and delinquency
_________are more likely to drive drunk than _________.
What is Men than Women
List 2 reasons to NOT use tobacco
What is...develop wrinkles and sagging skin at a younger age. smokers are more likely to get cancer of the mouth than non-smokers. Smokers get 80% of all cases of cancer of the esophagus. After repeated use the brain and body become physically dependent on the drug. Tobacco smoke irritate the throat and can cause throat cancer. it can also make the voice thick and gravelly.
_____________ _____________ is the nation's most frequently violated violent crime.
What is drunk driving?
Name 3 states that have legalized marijuana.
MI, OR, WA
Name 2 methods of ingestion.
Injection, snorting, inhalation, oral, smoking, sublingual, drinking.
What is a way that you can prevent substance abuse?
What is Various Answers