Terms
Term for a mental health disorder for individual who cannot control themselves around substances.
What is substance abuse disorder?
This drug may slow down mental reactions and impair short-term memory, and emits a strong odor with use.
What is Marijuana?
This type of peer pressure happens when an individual or group threatens to leave someone out or end a friendship.
What is Rejection Peer Pressure?
This type of consequence refers to any consequence that affects the person in a psychological way. Such as anxiety, shame, mood and behavior changes.
What are mental consequences?
Considered by experts to be the leading cause for the current opioid epidemic. Doctors around the US have overprescribed these, beginning in the early 2000s.
What are painkillers?
This tactic is used by people of the same age group to force another into doing something.
What is peer pressure?
This highly addictive substance is a stimulant that comes in powder, crystal, and rock form form. Can be used orally or intranasally (through the nose).
What is Cocaine?
This type of peer pressure uses the tactics of insulting or calling names to make someone feel bad.
What is "Put Down" Peer Pressure?
This type of consequence refers to physiological changes in the body, such as heart conditions, lung disease, and brain damage.
What are physical consequences?
When an event affects a large number of people in the population its often referred to as this?
What is an Epidemic?
A term used to describe the physical and mental symptoms that a person has when they suddenly stop or cut back the use of an addictive substance, such as opiates and opioids, nicotine products, or alcohol.
Withdraw
This "natural" hallucinogenic can cause you to mix up your senses. "Hearing" colors & seeing "sounds."
What are magic mushrooms?
This type of peer pressure has someone trying to convince another to do something by giving examples or why it would be OK to do it.
What is Reasoning Peer Pressure?
This type of consequence refers to the impact that substance abuse has on your and your relationship with others. Like losing friends, loneliness, and ostracization.
What are social consequences?
This type of street drug is related to Herion, in that they are both opioids, but it is much more deadly.
What is Fentanyl?
Though not all substance directly affect the brains release of this chemical, most substances cause a rush of this chemical causing a feeling of euphoria and happiness.
What is dopamine?
This very strong drug popularized by the show 'Breaking Bad' is injected into the vein. The first dose can cause a rush of euphoric feelings followed by dizziness and vomiting.
What is Meth?
This type of peer pressure occurs when a group stands together talking or laughing, maybe looking at something you can’t see, with their backs out to others.
What is "The Huddle" Peer Pressure?
This type of consequence happens when substance abusers run into the law and develop a criminal record, get arrested, and serve jailtime.
What are legal consequences?
Overall drug use deaths have risen from 2019 to 2021 to more than 106,000 people according to what US agency in charge of tracking such statistics?
What is the CDC? (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
This type of repercussion refers to an affect that takes place directly after or soon after an event.
Is a general anesthetic, so it reduces sensations in the body. Also causes intense hallucinations that are 'dream-like' and have been described as 'near-death' experiences.
What is Ketamine?
This type of peer pressure can be direct or indirect and occurs when "Popular" people simply buy or wear or do something, and because they set a trend, others want to follow.
What is "The Example" Peer Pressure
This type of consequence refers to the monetary cost of substance abuse. Such as living in poverty, the cost of drugs, and potentially the loss of home.
What are financial consequences?
This term refers to when a person stops maintaining his or her goal of reducing or avoiding use of alcohol or other drugs and returns.
What is a relapse?