Drugs & The Brain
Drugs can damage nerve cells in this organ?
What is the brain
What is 21
What are opioids?
What is prescription medication for people who are in serious pain from things like dental surgery, injuries, cancer.
Tolerance
What is needing more of the same drug to reach the desired effect.
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examples of this useful tool in recovery.
What is a coping skill
A substance that can change the way a person feels or functions?
What is a drug
What are 3 ways people can use tobacco & nicotine?
What is smoke, chew, sniff
Where do opioids come from?
What is from a plant and others are made in a lab.
What is Addiction?
What is a chronic relapsing brain disease.
Most commonly used illicit drug in US?
What is Marijuana
Neurons in the brain communicate with each other by?
What is releasing chemicals?
Names for battery operated devices that people use to inhale nicotine, flavoring, or other chemicals?
What is vaping device
Ways opioids are misused?
What is not following the instructions from your doctor.
What is taking pills that are not prescribed for you.
What is taking opioids to get high.
Physiological response to the sudden quitting or slowing of use of a substance to which the body has grown dependent on.
What is withdrawal.
What will take away the effects of alcohol?
What is time
3 main parts of the brain affected by substance use?
What is the basal ganglia, extended amygdala, the prefrontal cortex
What are the health effects of vaping nicotine?
what is lung, mouth, stomach, kidney, and bladder cancers.
what is lung problems, coughing, heart disease, eye problems, yellow teeth.
Opioids can be laced with?
What is fentanyl
Name 3 health consequences of addiction?
What is
Withdrawal from this substance can cause anxiety, muscle aches, increased tearing, insomnia, runny nose, sweating, and yawning.
What is an opiate
The neurotransmitter in the brain commonly affected by drugs?
What is dopamine
How does nicotine work?
What is absorbed into your bloodstream and into your adrenal glands which release adrenaline that increases your blood pressure, breathing, and heart rate.
Name of 3 opioids?
What is
When someone uses drugs repeatedly, their brain _________?
What is becomes trained to crave the drug
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headaches, nausea, constipation or diarrhea, falling heart rate and blood pressure, fatigue, drowsiness, insomnia, iritability, difficulty concentrating, and anxiety.
What is nicotine.