Alcohol
Balance, Memory, Speech, and Judgement.
What are areas of the brain the alcohol impairs?
The most traded item on Earth.
What are cigarettes?
How drugs affects an individual is dependent on..
What is the body size, general health, amount & strength of drug, mixing of drugs?
The most abused prescription drug.
What is opioids?
50% of all suicides, and over 50% of all violent crimes, are cause by alcohol and/or drugs.
True
The number of people that die yearly from alcohol related deaths.
What is more than 95,000?
The number of people that die every 4.5 seconds from to tobacco related diseases.
What is one?
A class of drugs that slows down the messages travelling between the brain and the body. They can reduce arousal and stimulation, making a person feel relaxed or drowsy.
What is a depressant?
How 70% of those who abuse prescription drugs obtain them.
What is family and friends?
Pain killers, tranquilizers and stimulants are the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
True
The percent of driving deaths that are alcohol related.
What is 31%?
The yearly percent of deaths in the United States from tobacco related issues.
What is 20%?
A class of drugs that speed up messages travelling between the brain and body. They can make a person feel more awake, alert, confident or energetic.
What is a stimulant?
The probability of dying from a opioid overdose.
( 1 in ? )
What is 1 in 96 chance?
That's one every 15 minutes.
The probability of dying in a motor vehicle crash is 1 in 103.
13 years old is the average age children start experimenting with drugs.
True
The number of deaths from alcohol-impaired driving in the United states in 2021.
What is 13,384 people?
That's one death every 39 minutes.
How many chemicals does tobacco smoke contain?
What is over 7000?
A class of drugs affect all the senses, altering a person’s thinking, sense of time and emotions. They can also cause a person to hallucinate—seeing or hearing things that do not exist or are distorted.
What are psychedelic's?
Number of ER visits the were caused by adolescents self-administrating last year.
What is 58,546?
70% of all domestic violence reports are somehow related to alcohol or drugs.
False
*80%
Alcohol-induced anxiety, depression, antisocial behavior, and brief psychotic disorders.
What are brain function changes that are common with those that struggle with alcohol abuse?
The average range of most commercially available e-liquids (vapes) containing nicotine levels. (answer in mg)
What is 3mg to 18mg?
A class of drugs that can cause people to feel separated or detached from reality. They can also cause hallucinations or other changes in thoughts, emotions and consciousness.
What are dissociatives?
A synthetic opioid that is 100 times stronger than morphine and 50 times stronger than heroin. It is often injected or pressed into counterfeit pills.
What is Fentanyl?
Many fake pills are made to look like prescription opioids – such as oxycodone (), hydrocodone, Xanax; or stimulants like Adderall – but contain fentanyl or methamphetamine.
6 out of every 10 pills with Fentanyl contain a potentially lethal dose.
Overdose deaths were the lowest ever in 2021.
False
In 2021, as reported by the CDC, there were 100,306 fatal overdoses in the US, up 28.5% from the previous year and the highest number ever recorded in US history. .