Side Effects
Opioids are particularly dangerous in overdose because they can slow or stop this automatic body function.
What is breathing?
Alcohol is classified as this type of drug.
What is a depressant?
This term describes needing more of a substance to feel the same effect.
What is tolerance?
This anti-drug slogan became widely known during this U.S. campaign that focused heavily on criminalizing drug use.
What is ‘Just Say No’?
In this 1967 Beatles song, the title itself refers to a psychedelic drug experience.
What is “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”?
Long-term heavy drinking can cause permanent scarring of the liver.
What is cirrhosis?
This drug is involved in nearly 70% of all U.S. drug overdose deaths.
What is Fentanyl?
This recovery principle focuses on progress instead of perfection.
What is one day at a time?
This government agency was created in 1973 to enforce controlled substance laws in the United States.
What is the DEA/Drug Enforcement Administration?
This 2005 film follows a Memphis rapper trying to escape the street life and pursue music.
What is Hustle & Flow?
Alcohol can make people urinate more because it interferes with a hormone that normally helps the body retain ______.
What is water?
Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) tells your kidneys to save water and return it to your bloodstream instead of making urine.
This part of the brain is heavily impacted by addiction and decision-making.
What is the prefrontal cortex/frontal lobe?
This tiger was caged at the D.C. National Zoo.
Who is Mohini?
When this movement began in 1920, illegal alcohol markets flourished, contributing to organized crime, corruption, and gang violence.
What is Prohibition?
This rapper released the song “Codeine Crazy,” which openly discusses his relationship with lean and substance use.
Who is Future?
This potentially fatal alcohol-withdrawal complication can involve confusion, agitation, hallucinations, and seizures.
*Hint - goes by 2 letters*
What is delirium tremens (DTs)?
Consuming 4 or more drinks for women or 5 or more drinks for men on a single occasion.
What is binge drinking?
This recovery phrase means taking responsibility for your actions and choices.
What is accountability?
The Bayer pharmaceutical company marketed this drug in 1898 as a non-addictive treatment for coughs and other ailments.
What is heroin?
This 1971 song by Eric Clapton was inspired by his relationship with Pattie Boyd and contains references to cocaine use.
What is “Layla”?
Severe deficiency of this vitamin associated with chronic alcohol misuse can contribute to Wernicke encephalopathy.
What is thiamine (vitamin B1)?
Without enough B1, brain cells literally run out of fuel, get damaged, and can die.
Balance Issues: Trouble walking or a complete loss of coordination (called ataxia).
Eye Trouble: Strange eye movements, double vision, or drooping eyelids
Teens who begin drinking alcohol before this age are 4 to 6 times more likely to develop an alcohol use disorder later in life compared to those who wait.
What is 15?
This recovery term describes the early stage of sobriety where a person may feel overly confident, euphoric, or unrealistically optimistic about recovery.
What is Pink Cloud?
In early American history, these plants were considered legal tender and could be used to pay local taxes between 1631 and the early 1800s.
What are hemp and cannabis?
This 1998 film starring Tupac Shakur and Tim Roth follows a young man involved in a dangerous drug-related environment.
What is Gridlock'd?