Drugs
What are the main categories of drugs?
Stimulants, depressants, hallucinogen, and opiates
Which organ does alcohol affect the most?
Liver
Can drugs affect your peers?
What is yes
Does dopamine have a positive impact on your brain?
No, dopamine has a negative impact on your brain.
Name two types of Alcohol
Wine, beer, alcopop, whiskey, rum, vodka, rye
What is another word for marijuana?
What is weed, or pot
Which mental health illnesses can you develop from substance abuse?
Anxiety and depression disorders
What does the word peer pressure mean?
Peer pressure means to be pushed into something because of the influence of people your own age.
What role does it play in the brain?
Dopamine makes your brain remember the pleasurable behaviors that u experience
The main ingredient of cigarettes is _______.
Tobacco
What is the definition of the word drug?
What is anything you put in your body that changes you emotionally, socially, or physically.
Name three consequences that smoking can have on your body
Rot your teeth, turn your teeth yellow, lungs black, causes heart attacks, cancer, fingernails turn yellow
Is it true or false that drugs can affect academics?
What is true
The chemical that helps signals pass between nerve cells in the brain
What is Dopamine
Alcohol gets into the blood stream within a few ____.
Minutes
If a pregnant woman abuses drugs, does it affect the fetus?
Fas (fetal alcohol syndrome) can be a big factor in the baby's life. It can also lead to miscarriage.
What are the four ways drugs can be taken?
Ingested, inhaled, injected, and absorbed
What are the social side effects of taking drugs?
mood swings, paranoia, anxiety, depression, memory problems, mental confusion, brain damage, and schizophrenia.
What is dopamine also known as?
Dopamine is also known as the reward system.
Which of the following does the word "intoxicated" usually belong to? a.)Smoking b.)Drinking c.)Drugs
b. Drinking
True or False: At one point in history, drugs were actually legal to use. This was called prohibition.
What is false.
If Shaqueille O'Neill smoked, how might that have hurt his chances of being a basketball player?
What is because his growth may have been stunted, decreased stamina.
Why do people socially isolate themselves when taking drugs?
They start to distance themselves from their peers because they are avoiding feelings of shame and embarrassment.
What destroys the dopamine receptors?
Meth destroys dopamine receptors, making it impossible to feel pleasure.
When you get throat cancer from smoking, the doctors sometimes have to put a __________ in your throat to help you breathe.
Stoma