Teens and Drug Use
A chemical substance, natural or human made, that changes body functions in some way.
Drug
A chronic, relapsing disorder characterized by compulsive drug seeking, continued use despite harmful consequences, and long lasting changes in the brain.
Drug addiction
Drugs a person can legally get only from a pharmacy with a written prescription from a medical professional.
Prescription Drugs
A type of drug that is used to relieve pain and is highly addictive.
Opioids
Chemical found in tobacco products.
Nicotine
These types of drug cure or treat disease, reduce symptoms of illness and reduce pain
Medicine
A brain chemical that causes people to feel safe or happy.
Dopamine
Drugs that can be purchased from a drug store or grocery store.
Over- the- counter drugs
What drug can opioid use lead to?
Heroin
Smoke inhaled involuntarily, from tobacco being smoked by others
Secondhand smoke
List one example of a legal drug.
When it takes more and more of the drug to cause the same effects.
Tolerance
Use of legal prescription or over-the-counter drugs in greater amounts, more often or in different ways than what’s prescribed or recommended.
Misuse
Are opioids a prescribed medicine or over the counter medicine.
Prescribed medicine
True or False: Vape aerosol contains very tiny particles, including tiny bits of metals and cancer-causing chemicals, that can go deep into the lungs.
True
List one example of an illegal drug.
Heroin, cocaine, ecstasy
When a person stops using a drug, the person goes through...
Withdrawal
The use of illegal drugs or the use of prescription or over-the-counter drugs for purposes other than those for which they are meant to be used.
Abuse
True or False: Smokers are less likely to use alcohol and other drugs than nonsmokers.
False
Explain one reason why a person's environment could be a risk factor for drug use.
- Easy access to drugs at
home, school, community
• Community and
neighborhood crime
• Poverty
At what age is the brain fully mature.
25
Misuse or Abuse
Using an allergy medicine to keep you awake to study for a test.
Abuse
Name one lung disease that can occur from smoking.
emphysema, bronchitis, lung cancer