Toxic Tobacco
These thin, hand-rolled, flavored cigarettes from India contain more nicotine and tar than regular cigarettes.
What are Bidis?
This act is defined as drinking five or more alcoholic drinks in one sitting
What is binge drinking?
This group of drugs is inhaled as vapors and can be deadly after only a single use.
What are inhalants?
This support group is specifically designed to help teenagers cope with an alcoholic family member.
What is Alateen?
In the GREAT decision making model, the letter G stands for this first step.
What is Give thought to the problem.
This poisonous gas found in cigarette smoke is also a chemical used to develop photographs.
What is cyanide?
Alcoholism is currently the second leading cause of this brain wasting condition in the U.S.
What is dementia?
These drugs, such as LSD and PCP, distort perceptions and cause users to see things that aren't real.
What are hallucinogens?
Sharing needles while using drugs puts individuals at high risk for these two specific infectious diseases?
What are Hepatitis B and HIV?
This is the medicine that provides a tiny amount of nicotine to the body to help someone quit smoking.
What is a nicotine substitute.
The chemical in cigarette smoke is also used as embalming fluid for laboratory animals.
Statistics show that about 3 in every 10 people in the U.S. will be involved in one of these in their lifetime.
What is an alcohol related car crash?
This category of drugs, derived from the poppy plant, is used medically as pain relievers but is highly addictive.
What are opiates?
This support organization provides advice and meetings for the adult family members of alcoholics.
This is a planned meeting where family members confront an addict to encourage them to seek treatment.
What is an intervention?
This is the name for the hole in the throat some smokers must breathe through after a laryngectomy.
What is stoma?
This is the physical and mental state of loss of self-control caused specifically be drinking alcohol.
What is intoxication?
Also known as designer drugs, these are chemically made to resemble common illegal drugs and are often sold at parties.
What are club drugs?
Passive smoking contributes to over 150,000 annual cases of these two respiratory illnesses in infants.
What are bronchitis and pneumonia?
If a friend ignores your no and continues to pressure you, you should use this final refusal skill.
What is walking away?
Using these types of tobacco products often results in the unattractive habit of frequent spitting.
What are smokeless tobacco products (chew/snuff)?
This organ is responsible for breaking down alcohol at a rate of roughly one drink per hour.
What is the liver?
This is the common name for the drug made from the dried flowers and leaves of the Cannabis sativa plant.
What is marijuana?
In addition to medical and funeral costs, tobacco use costs society money through this lost economic factor.
What is lost productivity?
According to the Tobacco Free Life Chapter (Chapter 11), this is the single best reason for staying tobacco free.
What is life (or your life)?