Chemicals
The highly addictive stimulant found in smoking products.
What is nicotine?
The effect of nicotine on heart rate.
What is increased heart rate?
The increase in tax on cigarettes multiplied increased by what factor?
What is 3 (tripled)?
A battery-operated device that delivers nicotine to users in vapor instead of smoke.
What is an e-cigarette?
Taking two pills of advil every 4-6 hours (as shown on bottle).
What is an example of drug use?
The chemical often used for flavoring vapes.
What is diacetyl?
The effect of nicotine on blood vessels
What is blood vessel constriction?
A law banning smoking at work, restaurants, and bars.
What is the Indoor Clean Air Act?
The difference between an e-cig and a vape.
What is none?
Taking vicodin for a headache, which it is not medically prescribed for.
What is an example of drug misuse?
Highly addictive drugs used to relive pain (often prescribed after a surgery).
What are opioids?
The physical or psychological state that occurs after long term use of a drug where the user needs it to function normally.
What is dependence?
A 1994 act banning smoking in schools.
What is The Pro-children Act of 1994?
A drug that increases a users energy.
What is a stimulant?
Using heroin to get high.
What is an example of drug abuse?
An extremely dangerous synthetic opioid.
What is fentanyl?
A progressive pulmonary disease often caused by cigarette smoking.
What is COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
As education level goes up, smoking levels go this direction.
What is down?
Name 3 ways drugs can be administered.
What are pumps, inhalation, injection, patches, ingestion, topical application (any 3)?
The uncomfortable physical and psychological symptoms produced when a physically dependent drug user stops using drugs.
What is withdrawal?
A drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose by binding to opioid receptors in the brain.
What is Narcan?
A lung disease often caused by the chemical 'diacetyl'.
What is popcorn lung?
Name three sources of treatment for drug abuse.
What are Behavioral counseling, Medication, Medical devices, treatment for co-occurring mental health, Long-term follow-up to prevent relapse (any 3)
The phenomenon where it takes more of a drug to feel the same effects as before.
What is tolerance?
A condition in which a person can no longer control his or her drug use.
What is addiction?