Stimulants & Depressants
Substances that slow down the body's functions and reactions, produce feelings of relaxation, and reduce anxiety
What are depressants?
What is the Cannabis plant?
Primary addictive substance in tobacco products
What is nicotine?
The neurotransmitter (chemical) that affects the brain's reward pathway, causing the brain to crave nicotine
What is dopamine?
Any drug that is made or sold outside of the law. Includes illegally made, packaged or sold legal drugs or illegals drugs.
What are street drugs?
More people die from overdoses from this category drug than any other in the U.S.
What are opioids?
Food products that have been infused (made) with cannabis
What are edibles?
Finely ground tobacco that can either be inhaled through the nose or placed between the cheeks and gums.
What is snuff?
The mix of harmful chemicals that are released from an e-cigarette
What is aerosols?
Drugs that distort perception of reality, mood, thoughts, and senses
What is 100 mg (although none is better)?
The two main substances in cannabis
What is THC and CBD?
Dark, thick, sticky liquid that destroys the cilia and air sacs in the lung making it difficult to breath
What is tar?
The effects of vaping on the lungs
Can result in sudden death by cardiac arrest or suffocation
What are inhalants?
Stimulant prescribed for ADHD or serious sleep problems to help people be more alert, increase attention and focus, and increase energy by stimulating the nervous system
What are amphetamines?
The property of THC, which makes the user feel "high"
What is the addictive psychoactive property?
The amount of tobacco in a singular cigar is comparable to
What is a pack of cigarettes?
Puts small children at risk for ingesting the harmful chemicals in e-cigarettes
What is thirdhand aerosol?
Powerful hallucinogen that produces strange, destructive behavior causing many to end up in emergency rooms (superhero effect)
What is PCP?
Taking a drug again and again over a long period of time to increase the effects of the high
What is a binge?
CBD products are used to treat
What are the effects of chemotherapy and severe epilepsy?
What is sidestream smoke?
Harmful substances within e-cigarettes (list 2)
What is gasoline, batteries, lead (car battery), nickel, pesticides, dead tissue preservative (formaldehyde), paint thiner
Powerful sedative that is colorless and odorless when dissolved in a drink. It causes sleep-relaxed feeling and loss of memory
What is Rohypnol (roofies)?