Vaping
Vaping increases heart rate and blood pressure, raising your risk of this kind of disease.
What is heart disease (or cardiovascular disease)?
This term describes when someone drinks a large amount of alcohol in a short time.
What is binge drinking?
This powerful drug can be up to 50 times stronger than heroin.
Fentanyl
These two numbers or symbols on a prescription bottle tell you how much and how often to take the medicine.
What are dosage and directions?
Because cocaine is so strong, many people who try it risk this kind of harmful habit.
What is addiction?
This is the addictive drug found in most vapes and cigarettes.
What is Nicotine?
Drinking too much can cause this condition, where you can’t remember what happened.
What is a blackout?
These illegal drugs, like heroin or cocaine, are sometimes laced with fentanyl without the user knowing.
What are street drugs?
Opioids, depressants, and stimulants are the three major classes of prescription drugs that are often what?
What are misused or abused?
This is the plant from which cocaine is originally derived.
What is the coca plant?
This organ is most directly affected by vaping.
What are the lungs?
Alcohol is classified as this type of drug because it slows down body functions.
What is a depressant?
Dealers sometimes add fentanyl to drugs to make them seem stronger — but this actually makes them more likely to cause this
What is an overdose?
Opioid drugs attach to these receptors in the brain to block pain signals.
What are opioid receptors?
The most innocent victims of cocaine.
What are children who are born to mothers who use during pregnancy?
Is secondhand vapor harmful?
What is aerosol from e-cigarettes contain nicotine and other potentially toxic substances and can increase indoor particulate matter?
Alcohol poisoning can suppress this vital brain function, leading to death if untreated.
What are breathing and heart rate (respiratory and cardiac function)?
Fentanyl is especially dangerous because it is this many times stronger than morphine.
What is about 100 times stronger?
Stimulants increase the levels of this brain chemical, linked to focus and alertness.
What is dopamine?
Long‑term cocaine use can damage brain tissue by increasing this kind of stress on cells (involving reactive oxygen species, inflammation).
What is oxidative stress (and neuroinflammation)?
This condition, linked to vaping, caused a national outbreak in 2019.
What is EVALI (E-cigarette or Vaping Product Use-Associated Lung Injury)?
This type of alcohol, produced by fermenting sugars and grains, is the only kind safe to drink.
What is ethyl alcohol (ethanol)?
Talking openly about drug risks helps reduce this feeling that keeps people silent or ashamed.
What is stigma?
Drugs that have a high potential for abuse are classified by the government under this system.
What are controlled substance schedules?
Cocaine causes this effect on blood vessels (narrowing) and therefore reduces blood flow to organs like the brain and heart.
What is vasoconstriction?