Drug Use Jeopardy

Tobacco

100

This establishment is gaining popularity in the U.S. and provides consumers water-pipes for smoking a variety of sweetened and flavored tobaccos.

What is a Hookah Bar?

200

This term refers to someone who is in the practice of smoking regularly but not daily, doesn't consider themselves smokers, and often smoke as an accessory to drinking.

What is a social smoker.

300

This is the average number of attempts required for successful smoking cessation.

What is seven!

400

These are two of the four male college sports that use smokeless tobacco more than any other sport or non-athlete college male.

What is BASEBALL, LACROSSE, ICE HOCKEY, and WRESTLING. About one-quarter of all men athletes (2% of women) reported the use of spit tobacco in the past year, which is unchanged since 2005. The most frequent spit tobacco users (between one-third and one-half of sport participants) are men in ice hockey, baseball, lacrosse and wrestling. http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/research/ncaa-student-athlete-substance-use-study-executive-summary-august-2014

500

This is the number of cigarettes (in terms of how many chemicals and carcinogens the user takes in) that would equal 1 joint.

What is one pack (20 cigarettes)?

Psychoactive Drugs

100

This is one negative result a campus with the reputation of a “party school” may encounter.

What is 1. declining retention rates, 2.increased expenses due to vandalism 3. diminished reputation. 4.attract students who engage in high-risk behaviors 5.discourage prospective students who are looking for an academically rigorous institution

200

This is the number of ounces of Beer, Wine, and mixed drink that constitutes one drink.

What is One 12 oz. beer One 5 oz. wine One 1.5 oz. shot of hard liquor

300

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) has found this drug to be more likely associated with violence than any other drug.

What is alcohol?

400

These are three of the most common illicit drugs found at Rave Parties providing a stimulant and psychedelic effect:

What is

MDMA (Ecstasy), GHB, Rohypnol, Ketamine, Methamphetamine, and LSD

NIDA-supported research has shown that use of club drugs can cause serious health problems. Used in combination with alcohol, these drugs can be even more dangerous.

500

The class of drugs that are not manufactured to be drugs.

What is/are inhalants?

"Pot-pourri"

100

Marijuana today is “Riskier” or “Safer” than that smoked by your parent’s generation.

What is Riskier?

200

Heavy marijuana use impairs young people's ability to succeed in school by effecting this study skill.

What is

1. problems with memory/retaining information 2. concentration 3. motivation. 4. problems learning.

Source: NIDA. Marijuana: Facts for Teens, 2008 Source: Pope HG et al., "Early-onset cannabis use and cognitive deficits: what is the nature of the association?" Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 69(3): 303-310, 2003.

300

The earlier the age of initiation for marijuana use is the most important predictor of this.

What is addiction or need for drug treatment?

The earlier kinds start using marijuana, the more likely they are to become dependent on this or other illicit drugs later in life.

400

Young people who use marijuana weekly have double the risk of this mental illness later in life.

What is Depression and Schizophrenia. Heavy Marijuana users are more likely than non-users to be diagnosed with schizophrenia later in life. A recent study found that people who had used marijuana more than 50 times before the age of 18, had a threefold increased risk of developing schizophrenia later in life. Source: Zammit, S et al., "Self-reported cannabis use as a risk factor for schizophrenia in Swedish conscripts of 1969: historical cohort study," British Medical Journal, 325:1199-1201, 2002 Arseneault L, et al., "Cannabis use in adolescence and risk for adult psychosis: longitudinal prospective study," British Medical Journal, 325:1212-1213, 2002 Source: Patton, GC et al. "Cannabis use and mental health in young people: cohort study." British Medical Journal, 325: 1195�1198, 2002

500

More teens are in treatment with a primary diagnosis of this drug dependence than for all other illicit drugs combined.

What is marijuana dependence?

Rally for Recovery

100

While overdose death rates from drug overdoses increased for all age groups, 

adults aged _____ had the greatest increase.

Still, the age group with the highest overall rates of fatal overdose was adults aged _____.

What is: While overdose death rates from drug overdoses increased for all age groups, the greatest increase was in adults aged 55-64. Still, the group with the highest overall rates of fatal overdose was slightly younger — adults aged 45-54.

• The percentage increase of drug overdose deaths among adults aged 55-64 rose from 4.2 per 100,000 in 1999 to 21.8 in 2015.

• In 2015, adults aged 45-54 had the highest death rate from drug overdose at 30 deaths per 100,000.

(CDC/NCHS)

200

This is an opioid reversal drug that can revive heroin or opiate overdoses.

What is Naloxone or Narcan? Ohio emergency medical personnel last year administered nearly 19,800 doses of naloxone, known by the brand name Narcan. Naloxone can be dispensed by pharmacists without a prescription under changes made in 2015, and more than 900 pharmacies around Ohio now offer that. The drug has been used by first responders to revive heroin or opiate overdose victims. Loved ones of heroin users previously had to obtain a prescription from a doctor.

300

Over the last 7 years, these are 2 of the 4 counties in Ohio with the highest death rates due to unintentional drug overdose.  

What are:

Cuyahoga with 2,372 deaths,

Franklin with 1,926 deaths,

Hamilton with 1,879,

Montgomery with 1,847 deaths.

http://publicapps.odh.ohio.gov/EDW/DataBrowser/Browse/Mortality

400

NAS is constellation of problems occurs in a newborn exposed to addictive illegal or prescription drugs while in the mother’s womb. NAS stands for:

WHAT IS NEONATAL ABSTINENCE SYNDROME?

Symptoms include: tremors, sleep problems, excessive, high-pitched crying and seizures. More and more babies nationwide are born with NAS after in-utero exposure to opioids

May 2015 article in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Every 25 minutes a baby is born with NAS $1.5 billion yearly health care costs for babies with NAS Fivefold increase in NAS since 2000 16.9 days average LOS $66,700 average cost of hospital stay 78% costs billed to state Medicaid source: National Institute of Drug Abuse

500

This are 1 of the 3 most common opioid drugs contributing to the increase of drug overdoses in Ohio.

What are: HEROIN, FENTANYL and CARFENTANIL? Carfentanil and fentanyl are both strong opioids that drug dealers are now mixing with heroin in order to give the drug a boost and make their supply last longer, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Fentanyl is commonly used by cancer patients for pain relief, and it is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. Carfentanil is a sedative for large animals that’s not approved for human use. A version of fentanyl, this drug is 10,000 times stronger than morphine. As little as 2 milligrams of carfentanil can knock out an African elephant weighing nearly 2,000 pounds. POSTED 7:37 PM, SEPTEMBER 25, 2016, BY CNN WIRE SERVICE

Suicide

100

This is the term social scientists currently use to replace the previously described “Successful Suicide.”

What is “Completed Suicide!”

200

This is the goal of suicide.

What is end the pain?!? (Not death)

300

This is the effect the cost of beer has to Suicidal behaviors among College Students.

What is suicidal behavior among college students is lower where the price of beer is higher.

(http://www.nber.org/digest/aug02/w8810.html)

400

This is the most common response/reaction to hearing a threat of suicide.

What is say nothing? Followed by changing the subject and ridicule.

500

Students living on campus

or

Students living off campus

have higher suicidal behaviors.

What is Students living on campus?

Students living on campus are found to be more likely to engage in suicidal behaviors because of their higher drug and alcohol use than those living off campus.

http://www.nber.org/digest/aug02/w8810.html)