Opioids
Effects
Other Drugs
Alcohol
Treatment
100

This powerful synthetic opioid is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.

What is Fentanyl

100

Harmful effects of this include:

  • drowsiness
  • confusion
  • nausea
  • constipation
  • euphoria
  • slowed breathing

What are opioids?

100

A tea made from one of several Amazonian plants containing dimethyltryptamine(DMT), the primary mind-altering ingredient.

What is Ayahuasca?

100

This Blood Alcohol level is evidence that you're impaired in New York. 

What is .05?

100

When treating addictions for this drug, medication should be the first line of treatment, usually combined with some form of behavioral therapy or counseling.

What are opioids

200

This opioid is made from morphine, a natural substance taken from the seed pod of the various opium poppy plants grown in Southeast and Southwest Asia, Mexico, and Colombia.

What is Heroin

200

Effects of this drug are:

mixed senses (such as "seeing" sounds or "hearing" colors)

spiritual experiences

feelings of relaxation or detachment from self/environment

uncoordinated movements

excessive sweating

panic

paranoia—extreme and unreasonable distrust of others

psychosis—disordered thinking detached from reality

What are hallucingenics

200

Almost 15 percent of this drug failed labeling tests for potency or purity, typically because they were mislabeled or had detectable levels of pesticides, microbes, or solvents.

What is Cannabis?

In 2018 the California Bureau of Cannabis Control tested nearly 26,000 products.

200

This Blood Alcohol Content level is legal evidence that you are intoxicated in New yhork?

What is .08?

200

A medicine that can treat an opioid overdose when given right away.

What is Naloxone?

300

The family and drug company behind the popular painkiller drug OxyContin who are being sued  

Who are the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma.

A group made up of more than 500 cities, counties and Native American tribes across the United States has filed a massive lawsuit accusing members of the Sackler family, who own the maker of the opioid painkiller OxyContin, of helping to create “the worst drug crisis in American history”.

The lawsuit represents communities in 26 states and eight tribes and accuses Sackler family members of knowingly breaking laws in order to enrich themselves to the tune of billions of dollars, while hundreds of thousands of Americans died.

300

What drug's low-down effect on your brain can make you drowsy, so you may doze off more easily. But in fact, you won’t sleep well.

What is alcohol?

Our body processes alcohol throughout the night. Once the effects wear off, it leaves you tossing and turning. You don’t get that good REM sleep your body needs to feel restored. And you’re more likely to have nightmares and vivid dreams. You’ll also probably wake up more often for trips to the bathroom.

300

Over the long term, this drug affected areas of the brain involved with emotion and memory. This may explain many of the emotional and cognitive problems observed in those who use it.

What is Methamphetamine?

300

 This is a pattern of drinking that brings a person’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 0.08 grams percent or above. This typically happens when men consume 5 or more drinks or women consume 4 or more drinks in about 2 hours

What is binge drinking?

300

Some high-risk situations to avoid are to not let yourself get too hungry, angry, lonely or tired. What can help you remember these circumstances?

What is H.A.L.T.

400

The number of people in the United States who died in 2017 from opioid abuse

More than 47,000 Americans

400
  • Sexual trouble
  • Lung damage
  • HIV or hepatitis if you inject it
  • Bowel decay if you swallow it
  • Loss of smell, nosebleeds, runny nose, and trouble swallowing, if you snort it

What is cocaine?

You may have strong cravings for the drug and the high it brings. But the more you use cocaine, the more your brain will adapt to it. You’ll need a stronger dose to feel the same high. This can lead to a dangerous addictionor overdose.

Stronger, more frequent doses can also cause long-term changes in your brain’s chemistry. Your body and mind begin to rely on the drug. This can make it harder for you to think, sleep, and recall things from memory. Your reaction time may be slower. And you’re at risk for more heart, stomach, and lung problems.

400

Being without this drug for too long can cause a regular user to experience irritability, craving, depression, anxiety, cognitive and attention deficits, sleep disturbances, and increased appetite. These withdrawal symptoms may begin within a few hours after use, quickly driving people back.


What is nicotine?

400

Steady drinking over time, Starting at an early age, Family history, Depression and other mental health problems, History of trauma, Having bariatric surgery, Social and cultural factors

What are risk factors of Alcohol Use Disorder?

400

Strategies people often use in the face of stress and/or trauma to help manage painful or difficult emotions.

What are coping mechanisms?

500

This policy allocated $1 billion over two years in opioid crisis grants to states, providing funding for expanded treatment and prevention programs

What is the 21 Century Cures Act?

500

Some people experience a syndrome known as “excited delirium” after this—they become psychotic (losing touch with reality) and violent. They might also have dehydration, breakdown of muscle tissue attached to bones, and kidney failure.

What are bath salts?

“Bath salts” is the name given to synthetic cathinones, a class of drugs that have one or more laboratory-made chemicals similar to cathinone. Cathinone is a stimulant found naturally in the khat plant, grown in East Africa and southern Arabia.

Chemically, cathinones are similar to amphetamines such as methamphetamine 

500

Bone marrow damage, liver and kidney damage, blackouts, limb spasms,hearing loss and the loss of brain cells are consequences from abusing what type of drugs?

What are inhalants?

500

The number of drinks per day that increases your chances of a stroke.

What is one.

The researchers say their key message is that there is now clear evidence of no protective effect of moderate drinking on stroke.

That means drinking even small amounts of alcohol each day can increase the chances of having a stroke.

Dr Stephen Burgess, from the University of Cambridge, said there were some limitations to the study - that it only looked at a Chinese population and focused mainly on the drinking of spirits and beer, not wine.

But he said the research reflected the culmination of many years of research into the impact of alcohol consumption.

"It strongly suggests that there is no cardiovascular benefit of light drinking and that risk of stroke increases even with moderate light alcohol consumption," he said.

"Risk of stroke increases proportionally with the amount of alcohol consumed, so if people do choose to drink, then they should limit their alcohol consumption."

500

This study suggests that social interaction can change the activity of specific neuronal circuits that control drug craving and relapse. 

Your Handout.

The protective effects of social interaction are more straightforward for rats than for people, but even so, the new findings in rats are in accord with what social scientists have reported for decades -- feelings of connectedness to society can protect some (not all) people against SUDs. The rats that are less strongly protected by social contact could be a model for understanding and treating their human counterparts.

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