Class of Drug
Powerful pain-reducing medications that have both benefits as well as potentially serious risks
What are Opioids?
Number one national health problem, causing more deaths, illness, and disabilities than any other health condition
What is Substance Abuse?
Treatment intended to relieve or heal a disorder; treatment of mental or psychological disorders by psychological means. Processing or talking to a trained professional about your emotional and mental problems and your relationships in order to understand and improve the way you feel and behave
What is Therapy/Counseling?
This famous rock star died officially of heart failure, but after his death reportedly was found to contain high dosages of, among other things, the opiates Dilaudid, Percodan, and Demerol, as well as Quaaludes and codeine.
Who is Elvis Presley?
The first music video played on MTV
What is Video Killed the Radio Star?
Approved to treat generalized anxiety disorder, insomnia, seizures, social phobia, and panic disorder. Also used as premedication before some medical procedures
What are Benzodiazepines?
The use of medications in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, which is effective in the treatment of opioid use disorders and can help some people to sustain recovery
What is Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)?
A desire or dream you try to achieve in a certain amount of time
What are Goals?
This music artist had a hit pop song come out a few years before her death called 'Rehab'
Who is Amy Winehouse?
Beyoncé's music start before becoming a solo singer
What is Destiny's Child?
Most misused substance. Legal in all states, impacts most body systems. Effects include euphoria and lower ambitions, impaired judgment, perception, and reaction time. Central nervous system depressant. Can cause severe long-term liver damage
What is Alcohol?
Uncontrollable craving for the drug. Loss of control. Use despite negative consequences. Chronic, biological brain disease. Psychological dependence. Physical dependence
What is Addiction?
Includes warning signs, social supports, coping skills, consequences. Used prevent relapse
What is a Relapse Prevention Plan?
This singer carried cocaine around in necklaces in the '70s and reported having burned a hole the size of a dime in her nose.
Who is Stevie Nicks?
The name of the boat in Jaws
What is Orca?
Second-most abused drug but they are becoming legally acceptable. Cause feelings of happiness, relaxation, sometimes paranoia
What are Cannabinoids?
The pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
What is Dopamine?
Things we can do to make ourselves feel better when we are going through difficult times (i.e. journaling, listening to music, going for a walk)
What are Coping Skills?
This singer/songwriter experienced a 20-year drug and alcohol addiction that he said saw him spending about $16,000 a week on heroin in the 1970s
Who is Eric Clapton?
Quentin Tarantino’s most popular film
What is Pulp Fiction?
Uppers, increase energy, focus, and wakefulness. They can also provide a “rush.” Short-term use increases productivity; it also produces a pleasure high. But, long-term use can lead to misuse and addiction
What are Stimulants?
Takes more and more of a substance over time to get same effects
What is Tolerance?
1. People
2. Places
3. Things
What are triggers?
This child star first was forced into rehab at age 13, and a mental institution for a year and a half after that. She was emancipated from her parents and declared an adult at age 14. She worked hard and stayed sober once she was away from her family.
Who is Drew Barrymore?
This movie had the biggest opening weekend of all time (adjusted for inflation)
What is Avengers: Endgame?