Definitions
A neurotransmitter in the brain that works with the reward pathway.
What is dopamine?
addiction, withdrawal symptoms, organ damage, overdose, transmission of diseases, accidental injury.
What are physical harms?
To not use
what is abstinence?
This number sends officials to your location.
What is 911?
The substance Ms. James is being pressured to consume.
What is Caffeine?
When the brain and body feel really bad when you stop using a substance.
What is Withdrawal?
Suspension or expulsion from school, removed from athletic teams or school clubs, denied entrance into college, refused scholarships and/or loans
What are academic harms?
Getting educated to know the effects, risks, and harms
What is gaining drug knowledge?
This substance immediately reverses the effects of an opioid overdose.
What is naloxone?
This is a strategy for companies to influence you to buy their products.
What is marketing tactics and MANIPULATION?
Any substance that in small amounts produces significant changes in the brain, body, or both.
What is a drug?
Make underlying depression or anxiety worse, cause conflicts with friends, family or teachers, families being split apart.
what are social-emotional harms?
How much of a substance and how often to use the substance.
What is dose and dosage?
This body orientation helps to prevent someone from choking on their vomit.
What is the recovery position?
This is where you can go for information about what you missed in class if you were absent.
What is "look here if you are absent"?
When someone needs high amounts of the drug to get their desired effect.
What is tolerance?
Paying fines, performing community service, attending mandatory class, drivers license privileges suspended, revoked or denied, being arrested, being sent to a juvenile detention center or jail
What are legal harms?
Testing a drug to see what it contains.
What is checking the substance?
This acronym helps people remember the signs of alcohol poisoning.
What are C.U.P.S.?
This drug is commonly known to come in the form of baked goods and snacks.
What is cannabis?
A complex interaction between our biology, psychology, and social situation having to do with the dependence on a substance or item.
What is addiction?
when a substance moves to the top of your list of needs taking priority to food, water, sleep, and everything else.
What is the hierarchy of survival?
This rule is common among using more than one substance.
What is don't mix substances?
The goal of this law was to encourage seeking treatment rather than punishment for an overdose.
This is Ms. James' favorite movie
What is Me Before You?