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Types of Drugs
Effects on the Body
Street Names
Alcohol Abuse
Smoking Stats
100
This drug is also known as the "gateway" drug.
What is marijuana?
100
This broad category of drugs slows down brain and bodily functions, slowing the speech and reflexes when abused.
What are sedatives? (downers- including marijuana, Xanax, Ativan, Valium, etc.)
100
This drug is sometimes called weed, pot, Mary Jane, reefer, hash, grass, dope, or cheeba.
What is marijuana?
100
True or false? Being caught drunk while under the age of 21 will result in arrest, a permanent misdemeanor on your criminal record, and up to a $500 fine.
TRUE!
100
Cigarettes contain over ________ chemicals, including acetone, formaldehyde, cyanide, and 401 other known poisons.
What is 4,000.
200
These medications contain DXM, which gives a buzz at low doses and hallucinations at high doses.
What are cough/cold medicines, or "over the counter" drugs?
200
This drug creates voice changes, excess facial hair in women, and shrunken testicles in men.
What are steroids?
200
Street names for this drug include Molly, Beans, Roll, Skittles, and E.
What is Ecstasy? (MDMA)
200
Alcohol is the cause of ____% of all fatal car crashes in the US.
What is 42%
200
Of the group of teens that smoke 1 or 2 cigarettes per day, this percentage of them will go on to become adult smokers.
What is 85%.
300
This type of drug is often abused because it can be obtained legally when prescribed by a doctor. Street names include Perks, Vics, T3s, and Oxy.
What are opiates? (prescription painkillers)
300
People who become addicted to this drug often have skin sores, rotten teeth, and hair that falls out.
What is meth?
300
This drug has been called ice, tweak, crank, glass, and speed.
What is meth?
300
Excessive drinking causes damage to the vital organs, especially the brain, ______, _______, and _______.
What are the heart, liver, and kidneys?
300
On average, people who smoke tend to live ____ years less than people who do not smoke.
What is 15 years.
400
This particular drug can cause hyper talkativeness, euphoria, and sudden high energy. Users often have chronic bloody noses.
What is cocaine? (coke, crack)
400
Use of this drug often results in death by overheating because the body cannot sweat. It also can cause severe hallucinations, seizures, liver damage, and paralysis.
What is Ecstasy?
400
Street names for this drug include gym candy, Arnolds, stackers, and pumpers.
What are steroids?
400
This fraction of patients in American hospitals are there because of complications due to excessive alcohol use.
What is 1/4.
400
Of the 20 million people who will try to quit smoking each year, on average only ____% will succeed.
What is 3%.
500
This drug is an opiate derived from morphine. It is highly dangerous because it effects the brain stem and interferes with the processes essential to life (breathing, circulation).
What is Heroin?
500
Using this type of drug can cause sudden black outs and severe damage to the brain due to oxygen deprivation.
What are inhalants? (Huffers)
500
This drug is sometimes called horse, skag, brown sugar, junk, or smack.
What is Heroin?
500
These are three top reasons why teens begin drinking alcohol before they are of the legal age.
What are: peer pressure, to relieve stress, to relax, to impress friends, to fit in, cope with depression, to rebel, to celebrate, to satisfy curiosity.
500
This is the main drug present in tobacco, a highly addictive, central nervous system stimulant which causes many types of cancer and severe damage to the lungs.
What is nicotine?