Category 1
What means, when a person cannot stop using a drug because of the physical or mental need of a drug?
Addiction
What do you need for a prescription medicine?
A doctor's prescription
Medicines that are given when you are sick and can give your immune system the extra boost it needs to get over bacterial infections
Antibiotics
How do people take alcohol?
Orally
How is ecstasy normally taken?
Orally
What is the legal age to buy or consume alcohol?
21
Drugs that slow down the body systems
Depressants
Which of the following drugs is an opiate?
Marijuana
Ecstasy
Heroin
Bath Salts
Heroin
Which essential body organ suffers the most life-threatening damage from alcohol?
Liver
Many car accidents are caused by individuals who have done what?
Drank alcohol
When someone drinks alcohol what happens to their brains?
Three possible answers...
Slows down brain function
Chemically changes the brain
Impairs judgement
Drugs that speed up the body system
Stimulants
Taking too much of a drug causing sickness, loss of consciousness and death
Overdose
What is tolerance in regards to drugs and alcohol?
The person needs more to have the same effects from using
Many pain killers fall under this classification of drugs.
Opioids
Alcohol can affect people differently based on many different factors. Which is NOT one of those factors?
Weight
Gender
Food in stomach
Hair color
Hair color
Drugs that distort a person's moods, thoughts, senses
Hallucinogens
What type of drug is cocaine?
Stimulant
What is dependence of a drug or alcohol?
The person needs the drug or alcohol to function normally
Bloodshot eyes and a dry mouth are signs someone may have used what type of drug?
Marijuana
Nicotine
Which of the following drugs is classified as a stimulant?
Tranquilizers
Cocaine
Fentanyl
Alcohol
Cocaine
Paint and gas when used incorrectly are considered to be...
Inhalants
What is another name for cannabis?
Marijuana
This type of drug can slow breathing and the heart rate
Opioids