These numbers don't lie
Adolescents who begin using drugs or alcohol before this age are 2-5x more likely to develop an addiction later in life.
Adolescents who begin using drugs or alcohol before this age are 2-5x more likely to develop an addiction later in life.
What is 17 years old?
In 2016, 15% of drivers aged 16 to 20 involved in fatal motor vehicle crashes had this?
What is a blood alcohol concentration of .08% or higher. Substance use impairs thinking/decision-ma king leading to risky sexual behavior (STDs), driving under the influence, riding with an intoxicated driver, fights, stealing, arrests, and even death.
Candy, downers, sleeping pills, and tranks are street names for ____.
What are benzodiazepines?
These are 2 common street names for prescription opioid medication.
What are Lean, Sizzurp, Purple Drank, Oxy, Percs, or oxycotton?
Teens usually see their pediatrician or family doctor when they are sick and are recommended to see them every ________ for a physical exam.
What is 1 year?
This percentage of teen car crash deaths are caused by an underaged drunk driver. Choose one: 5%, 25%, 50%, 65%
What is 25%
Often teens start using drugs because it was introduced by a friend. Name some negative social consequences from continued drug use.
What are losing friends, being kicked off sports team, grades falling, and isolation?
Blow, Bump, Charlie, Coke, Crack, Flake, Rock, Snow, Toot are street names for this drug.
What is cocaine?
This is a common street name for psilocybin.
What is Little Smoke, Magic Mushrooms, Purple Passion, or Shrooms?
Appointments with your psychiatrist can vary from ________ to every few ________, depending on where you are in your treatment.
What is weekly to months?
How many people who smoke regularly experimented with smoking (smoked socially) before age 18?
A. About 10%
B. More than half
C. Almost 90%
C. *Almost 90 percent of people who die from smoking-related causes started using tobacco products at or before age 18.
MDMA, also called Ecstasy or Molly, can result in failure of these organs.
What are the heart, liver, and kidney? MDMA affects the ability to regulate temperature, leading to a spike in body temperature that can ultimately result in death. It can also cause nausea, blurred vision, muscle cramping, and involuntary teeth clenching. Also you don’t always know what ingredients have been added to MDMA.
Poppers, snappers, whippets, laughing gas are street names for this class of drugs.
What are inhalants?
A psychedelic drug that causes auditory, visual, and tactile hallucinations. “Trips” are unpredictably pleasant or horrifying, memories can last long after the drug wears off, and flashbacks, nightmares, and depression can occur after only one use.
What is acid?
-often dissolved on the tongue using “stamps”
-can cause things like seeing music or tasting colors
Your doctor may recommend starting psychiatric medications for depression or anxiety when there are problems with your day to day ____________, such as missing school, not caring about your hygiene, or not eating or sleeping.
What is "functioning"?
Drugs called “Spice” or “K2” are sometimes called “fake weed,” but scientists call them by another name. In 2014, law enforcement reported 177 different types.
What are synthetic cannabinoids?
They contain different, potentially toxic, chemicals that have been sprayed onto plant-like material. We don’t always now what’s in them, so the effects are unpredictable and possibly dangerous.
Which of these is a symptom of alcohol overdose?
A. Irregular breathing
B. Confusion
C. Vomiting
D. All of the above
D. *In an overdose, so much alcohol is in the bloodstream that the brain’s control of breathing, heart rate, and temperature shuts down, resulting in difficulty remaining conscious, seizures, drop in heart rate and temperature, clammy skin, dulled responses (e.g. no gag reflex so you don’t choke), permanent brain damage, and death.
Crank, Chalk, Crystal, Fire, Glass, Go Fast, Ice, Speed are street names for ____.
What is methamphetamine?
MDMA is also commonly called ____________ and _________.
What is Ecstasy & Molly?
This is the best thing to do if you feel like your medication is not working or if you experience side effects.
What is go to your appointment or talk to you doctor?
This fraction of teens report that they intentionally misused opioid prescription drugs (pain relievers) in 2017
A. 1 in 5
B. 1 in 25
C. 1 in 50
B. *The 2017 Monitoring the Future survey shows that only about 4% of 12th graders report misuse of a prescription pain reliever in the past year, down from about 8% reported 5 years earlier.
This is the leading (#1) cause of death for teens.
What are car crashes?
Angel Dust, Boat, Hog, Love Boat, Peace Pill are street names for ____.
What is PCP or phencyclidine?
Name 1 common street name for ketamine. are street names for ____.
What is Special K, Vitamin K, Cat Valium, or K?
Name 2 tips to help someone remember to take their medications.
What is set an alarm on the phone, getting a pillbox, pairing it with consistent meal times, or asking your parents to help you?