Stages of Addiction
What are the five stages?
What is first use, continued use, tolerance, dependence, addiction.
What is over the counter medication?
Medicine you can buy without needing permission from a doctor/ medical supervisor.
What is prescription medication?
What are opioids?
Medications prescribed by doctors for severe pain.
True or False: Drugs can influence your life?
True
What is first use?
When a person tries a drug for the first time, the drug can change mental state.
What is included in the drug facts?
Active ingredient, uses, warnings, directions.
How do you acquire the prescription medicine
By a pharmacist.
What should you do with unused prescription opioids?
List all parts of life that a drug can influence.
Physical, Family, Social, Job, Legal, Financial, and Future.
What is continued use?
The person keeps on using the drug to feel a certain way, the brain is not normal.
Should you follow the instructions on the medicine?
Does prescription medicine drug fact have less information than of over the counter medicine?
Yes, it does since the pharmacist should tell you about it.
Where should you keep the opioid?
In the original container.
What are ways that drugs can influence legal part of your life?
You aren't able to get certain jobs like being a teacher, and using drugs makes it towards you cant get into certain schools and etc.
What is tolerance?
When a person gets used to using the drug and has to use more of it to get a certain high
What should you look for first when looking at a drug label.
You should look for the directions to see if you need it.
How do you take prescription medicines? (Also how you take over the counter).
The right person, right time, right amount.
What is legal opioids?
Given by doctors, specific dose, for specific medical conditions, monitored use.
How can drugs can affect you academically?
Decreased concentration, lower grades, behavior issues, etc.
What is the difference between dependence and addiction
Dependence you need the drug to feel normal, you get sick off withdrawal. Addiction is when the person cant stop using drugs even when it causes problem and will do anything to get it.
How can you misuse the over the counter drug?
Should you take the all the medicine even if you feel good before it runs out?
Yes, as it is better to send reinforcements than a new army.
What is illegal opioids?
Made in uncontrolled settings, have unknown strength, often mixed with dangerous substances, and have no medical supervision.
How can drugs affect your family?
Your family relationships can change, your family could think of you as an outcast, and you steal from them to buy drugs, etc.