Alcohol
The illegal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limit to drive in California if you are 21 or older.
What is 0.08% or higher?
Most e-cigarettes contain this highly addictive chemical, which can harm the parts of an adolescent's brain controlling attention and learning.
What is nicotine?
Frequent marijuana use during adolescence can affect learning and school performance. Name one performance that is affected.
What is attention, memory, and learning while the brain is still developing?
True or false: A medicine prescribed to one person is automatically safe for someone else.
False. Medicines should only be taken as directed for the person they were prescribed for.
According to the CDC, human brain development is not fully completed until around this age, making the adolescent brain vulnerable to external substances.
What is age 25?
Adolescents are especially vulnerable to the highly addictive chemical found in cigarettes because they accelerate the path to addiction by flooding a specific ‘reward pathway’
What is dopamine?
Frequent use of cannabis, and especially high doses, can actually trigger these two common mental health symptoms rather than calm them.
What is anxiety and paranoia?
Misusing these medications can affect brain activity, judgment, and coordination, even though they are intended to treat medical conditions.
What are prescription drugs?
Heavy drinking during adolescence can disrupt the normal development of this brain region—often called the "executive control center"—which is responsible for planning, judgment, and impulse control.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Over time, the body can get used to nicotine, causing a person to need more of it to feel the same effects.
What is tolerance?
This delta compound is one of the hundreds that are in marijuana, this is what gives the ‘high’ feeling and also affects your memory, emotions, judgement, an increase in dependency, and is not approved by the FDA for safe use.
What is THC (tetrahydrocannabinol)?
Why might the same substance affect two teenagers differently?
People differ in brain development, genetics, body size, health, the amount consumed, and frequency of exposure. However, individual differences do not make alcohol, nicotine, marijuana, or other drugs risk-free!