Addictive Substances
The most commonly consumed psychoactive substance on earth
What is Caffine.
Purple Haze, Sinsemilla, Acapulco Gold, Ganja
What is Cannabis
A condition that causes scarring of this organ, destroying it's normal function due to chronic alcohol use. Only 30% of patients survive 5 years after diagnosis.
What is Cirrhosis of the liver?
The provision of assistance and guidance in resolving personal, social, or psychological problems and difficulties, especially by a professional.
What is Counseling.
The desire to experience pleasure or fulfillment without delay or deferment.
What is instant gratification.
Offers an intense euphoric effect. Gives a brief dreamlike sense of well-being and relaxation. May cause drowsiness, dizziness, moodswings, and mental confusion.
What are Opiates.
Candy, Flake, Toot, Charlie, Bernice, Yoyo
What is Cocaine
The forcible or involuntary emptying of one's stomach contents through the mouth.
What is vomiting?
A desire to start using again. A high-risk situation or stressor that sparks a thought, feeling, or action to use drugs or alcohol.
What are Triggers.
Highly addictive substance, more than 2/3 of people who have tried this become dependent.
What is Nicotine
Thunder, Junk, Skag, China White
What is Heroin.
Potential infectious diseases (more than one possible) transferred from one person to another as a result of sharing needles.
What is the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and/or Hepatitis C?
Limits sobriety and may be a cause for a person to return to mood-altering chemicals.
What is Switching Addictions.
DAILY DOUBLE:
This substance acts directly on the brain's central nervous system processes. Over time these drugs weaken brain neurotransmitter chemical functions. After a while, the brain becomes unable to regulate chemical levels in the absence of this substance.
What are Stimulants.
Superman, Looney Toons, Lucy, Battery Acid, Animal, Beast.
What is LSD
A collection of pus that has accumulated in the body's tissue as a result of an infection.
What is an abscess?
Three drugs that are believed to be the most addictive.
What are Heroin, Alcohol, and Cocaine.
DAILY DOUBLE:
School boy, Doors and floors, Lean, Pancakes and syrup, sizzurp
What is Codeine
DAILY DOUBLE
Drugs are not held back by this separation between circulating blood in the body and cerebrospinal fluid in the central nervous system.
What is the blood-brain barrier?