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Drugs I
Drugs II
Tobacco
Marijuana
Alcohol
100
Name of synthetic marijuana, often sold as "potpourri"
What is K-2 or Spice?
100
TRUE OR FALSE: Substances (alcohol and other drugs) are the number one killer of Americans under the age of 25.
What is TRUE?
100
Tobacco can be contributed to about ______ deaths in the Unite States each year. * 50,000 * 100,000 * 440,000
What is 440,000?
100
TRUE OR FALSE: Marijuana is the most common illegal drug found in drivers who die in automobile accidents.
What is TRUE? About 14%; combining alcohol and marijuana increases the risks of drinking and driving.
100
What BAC stands for.
What is Blood Alcohol Concentration?
200
What someone has to a substance they have to take more and more of, in order to get the same effect.
What is tolerance?
200
By mimicking the brain's natural chemicals, substances are able to rewire this area of the brain and cause further substance-seeking.
What is the reward/pleasure center?
200
After a puff of a cigarette, nicotine is in the brain in ____ seconds. * 8 * 18 * 80
What is 8 seconds? It enters the blood in the lungs, goes to the heart, and then pumped to the brain - taking only 8 seconds.
200
Potential symptoms from marijuana withdrawal.
What are irritability, sleeping difficulties, anxiety, and cravings for the substance?
200
This is how long it takes the body to process and excrete one standard drink of alcohol.
What is 2 hours?
300
Known by this common name, this category of substances are similar to amphetamines and Ecstasy. They are often sold in small plastic or foil packets labeled "Not for human consumption" and may cause severe psychotic symptoms.
What are bath salts?
300
This two substance combination is the most common one to result in death.
What are prescription painkillers and alcohol?
300
The number of chemicals cigarette smoke contains. * 4,000 * 1,000 * 400
What is 4,000?
300

TRUE OR FALSE: Marijuana use is now legal in the state of Colorado.

What is True?

300

This is the amount of pure alcohol that is in a single standard drink.

What is 14 grams/0.6 ounces/1.2 tablespoons?

400

This substance is the most likely to cause overdose.

What is heroin?

400
Withdrawal from either of these two substances could result in death and should be medically monitored.
What are alcohol and benzodiazipines?
400
For each person who dies from a tobacco-smoking related disease, this many people suffer from tobacco-smoking related illness.
What is 20 or more? Illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, or lung disease.
400
Ways that marijuana affect school or work performance.
What are by affecting attention, memory, and learning and also decreasing motivation?
400
These are the first two functions to be affected/impaired by alcohol consumption.
What are reason and judgment?
500
People who have used Ecstasy risk death from dehydration for this reason.
What is because it masks the natural alarm signals of the body which would alert the person to dehydration?
500
These are five stages of the addiction process for any substance.
What are: experimentation, occasional/social use, regular use, problem use, addiction?
500
The temperature that cigarette smoke can reach during inhalation.
What is over 1,600*F?
500
THC is absorbed into this part of the body, meaning that it can still be detected in urinalyses, even weeks after last use in heavy users.
What are fatty tissues and organs?
500
These are the five factors affecting one's level of alcohol intoxication.
What are: weight, gender, food, type of mixer, and strength of drink?