Vocabulary
T/F: tolerance means the person needs more of the drug to get the same effect
What is true
T/F: opioids are highly addictive
What is true
T/F: painkillers cure the pain they are taken for
What is false
T/F: people can't quit once they are addicted
What is false
Define respiratory depression
What is breathing too slowly or too weakly
The approximate number of opioid deaths each day _______ 50, 200, 500
What is 200
Give me 2 mental or physiological effects of painkillers
What are constipation, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, confusion, addiction, unconsciousness, respiratory depression, increased risk of heart attack, coma, death
Give me 2 ways drugs have become so popular
What is media, music, culture, peers using...
Define prescription drugs
What is a drug that is prescribed by a doctor for a specific purpose
This is the drug that drives the opioid epidemic crisis
Give me 2 reasons painkillers are so addictive
What is they produce a short lived euphoria, leads to physical dependance, develop tolerance
1 typical effect of a depressant
What is it slows you down, sedative...
Define painkiller
Painkillers are made from this
What is opium poppy or created in a lab as an opiod synthetic
Give me 3 warning signs to painkiller dependancy
What are increase of dosage, change in personality, social withdraw, continued painkiller use after no longer needed, spending lots of time getting prescriptions, change in daily habits/appearance, neglect chores/bills, increased sensations sensitivity, forgetting/blackouts, lashing out/defensiveness
Tell me 2 classes of drugs
What is depressant, stimulant, antidepressant, and opioid and morphine derivative?
Define opium wars
What is two trading wars between Great Britain and China that began as a conflict over the opium trade
Painkillers effect the body the same way as these two drugs
What is morphine and heroin
This is the way opioids effect the body
What is block the nervous system transmission of pain and stimulate portions of the brain associated with pleasure
Define dissociate
What is being disconnected from reality?