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What occurs when a water or dry bong is used to smoke marijuana?
A "super high" caused by marijuana is obtained by using these devices, which cool and concentrate the smoke (also making it more harmful).
100
What does LSD do to your emotions?
LSD dramatically intensifies everyday emotions while enduring the high.
100
What makes a person more susceptible to addiction?
If your family has had a history of drug abuse, you are more inclined to suffer from addiction.
100
According to data collected by the National Monitoring the Future Survey, annual marijuana use among adolescents of all ages steadily fell in what decade?
The 1980s.
100
In the 60s and 70s, LSD was commonly used among people in their 20s. Today, the drug is making a comeback in what age group?
Teenagers.
200
What is Serotonin?
A brain hormone (in which levels are usually tampered with when using a hallucinogen) is involved in the control of behavioral, perceptual, and regulatory systems, including mood, hunger, body temperature, sexual behavior, muscle control, and sensory perception.
200
What is psychoactive drugs or psychedelics? Mind-altering substances, also known as these, affect perception of time and distance, thinking, mood, and behavior.
Mind-altering substances, also known as these, affect perception of time and distance, thinking, mood, and behavior.
200
What is an intervention?
When family members and close friends are concerned about drug use, or are affected by the amount of drug use they hold this meeting to address the addiction with the user.
200
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has listed what drug as "a drug of concern" and is looking into it to determine whether it should be declared a Schedule I controlled substance, on par with heroin and LSD?
Salvia or Salvia Divinorum.
200
Wisconsin was what percent below the national average (of 21%) of high school students who actively use marijuana in 2009?
3%.
300
What is LSD/acid?
This drug's physical effects can last up to 14 hours with only a small dosage.
300
What is Salvia or Salvia divinorum?
A Mexican herb containing the most powerful natural hallucinogen known. Scientists think that it could treat several types of mood disorders, but worry that regulations could stonewall research.
300
In addition to ADHD and anxiety what other mental illness gives a person a higher risk of becoming dependent on hallucinogens?
Depression.
300
Wisconsin is one of the top ten states for teen usage of what drug?
Marijuana.
300
What is the name of a motorized aircraft, which resembles a hang glider, is one of the newest tools smugglers are using to get drugs across the U.S.-Mexican border?
Ultralight.
400
LSD can potentially (and often does) dilate the pupils, cause sweating, tremors. What does this do to your blood pressure?
LSD raises blood pressure.
400
What is K2?
A drug that gives a similar high to Marijuana (euphoria, distorted perceptions, memory impairment, and difficulty thinking and solving problems) but was considered a legal alternative up until the latter half of 2010.
400
Children with parents who abuse illicit drugs, such as marijuana or other hallucinogens, or alcohol, are widely considered at high risk for a range of what kinds of problems?
Physical and behavioral problems, including future drug abuse.
400
What ethnicity has had the highest percentage (37%) of teen marijuana use in Wisconsin between 2007 and 2009?
Alaskan Native.
400
In 2009, about how many Americans age 12 and older had abused marijuana at least once in the year prior to being surveyed by the NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse)?
30 million.
500
What are flashbacks in regard to LSD usage?
LSD users and can experience flashbacks, which are recurrences of certain aspects of their drug experience. Flashbacks occur suddenly, often without warning, and may do so within a few days or more than a year after LSD use.
500
What is a drug that encourages “psychotomimetic” episode (This is similar to a psychosis)?
People who abuse salvia, or other hallucinogens like it, generally experience this kind of behavioral episode.
500
Youths with low family bonding at age 15 are how many times more likely to initiate illicit drugs, like marijuana, than those with high family bonding, based on a study by the NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse)?
Three times.
500
What ethnicity has had the lowest percent usage of marijuana among high school students in the state of Wisconsin since 2003 (16% in 2003, 10% in 2005, 10% in 2009)?
Asian or Pacific Islander.
500
Teens with unhealthy weight-control behaviors, like fasting, purging or using diet aids without a doctor's advice, are more likely to abuse drugs, except for girls who do what drug?
Marijuana.