Miscellaneous Facts
The most used illegal drug
what is Marijuana?
- "popcorn lungs"
- also known as "e-cigarettes."
- not water vapor; damages lungs and can result in damage.
What is vaping?
- term that covers many drugs that increase activity of the central nervous system and in the body
- drugs that have sympathomimetic effects.
- not always bad.
What is a stimulant?
- chemical that changes the biological processes in the body.
- effects the way someone thinks or feels.
- prescription ones are recommended by doctors but many are illegal and commonly abused.
What is a drug?
- substances that act on opioid receptors that are used for pain relief.
- effects may include itchiness, sedation, nausea, respiratory depression, constipation, and euphoria.
- long term effects are tolerance, addiction, and even death from respiratory depression.
What is an opioid?
About 130 Americans die every day from an (blank) overdose
What is an opioid overdose?
- damages cardiovascular system.
- the Nicotine found inside causes blood vessels to tighten.
- potential risk of heart disease, heart damage, etc.
What is tobacco?
- smokable and freebase form of cocaine.
- made by adding baking soda to a cocaine solution and consumed after it is dry.
- inhaled.
What is crack?
- part of the brain that relates subjects to different things that you enjoy, creating a pathway.
- releases dopamine (good endorphins) in the brain.
- makes you want to do something again; causes addiction.
What is the reward pathway?
the process of inpatient detox followed by inpatient rehab.
What is most effective treatment to fight opioid addiction?
The most commonly used tobacco product among teens
What is vaping?
- drug injected by needle.
- drug overdose are the leading cause of death for adults.
- biggest leader of drug epidemic.
- cheap and hard to come out of addiction.
What is fentanyl?
- form of the drug methamphetamine.
- increases dopamine in the brain and has similar effects to cocaine.
- highly addictive.
- long term effects are verbal problems and impaired motor skills.
- can also be called ice.
- it can be smoked in pipes, snorted, injected, swallowed, etc.
What is crystal meth?
- characterized by continued use of drugs even when that use causes harm to body or influences with someone's life.
What is addiction?
Name 2 different opioids
What are: Fentanyl, Codeine, Oxycodone, Hydrocodone and Morphine?
Type of drug that causes a profound distortions in a person's perceptions of reality
- (LSD, PCP)
what are Hallucinogens?
- effects the central nervous system.
- found as crystal form; appears like a rock and is often called "ice."
- some effects include addiction, damaged blood vessels, memory loss, hallucinations and anxiety.
- false sense of energy, resulting in pushing yourself further than you're supposed to.
What is meth?
- stimulant made from coca or prepared synthetically.
- also known as "coke."
- can be snorted, inhaled as smoke, or dissolved and injected.
What is cocaine?
- aid in treatment of a disease or injury.
- prescribed by doctors.
- prescription examples are Xanax, Ritalin, Tylenol, etc.
What are drugs in medicine?
The most common reason people become addicted to opioids
what is trying to relieve pain?
The other people your drug use can effect, (name 3)
What are Friends, Family, Strangers, unborn Baby, child, yourself.
- also known as Cannabis.
- made from the leaves of this plant.
- breathe it in through vapor, make it as a tea, apply it as a balm, or consume it in products.
What is Marijuana?
- commonly prescribed drug used to treat those with narcolepsy and/or ADHD.
- often abused among teens because of its effects of increased concentration and confidence.
- leads to addiction.
What is Adderall?
- alcohol and caffeine are common.
- medical marijuana prescription drugs are approved by doctors are legal.
- illegal drugs are commonly abused such as cocaine, crack, meth, etc.
What are drugs in society?
80% of people who use heroin first do x.
what is misused prescription opioids?