Recovery
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examples of this useful tool in recovery.
What is a coping skill?
Correct Answer 200
When mixed with alcohol, this drug creates an abnormally rapid heart rate and amplified impairment of cognitive, psychomotor, and driving performance.
What is Cannabis? (Marijuana) (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Correct Answer 500
Withdrawal from this substance can cause agitation, fever, hallucinations, seizures, and severe confusion.
What is Alcohol?
Correct Answer 500
Each year in the United States, nearly 85,000 people die from this legal drug, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in our country.
What is alcohol? (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism).
Correct Answer 200
Martin Luther King Jr. believed in progress through the use of nonviolent means. Who was an important influence on King's philosophy?
Gandhi
Correct Answer 500
After some time of using drugs or alcohol the brain will produce this.
Correct Answer 400
What is cravings?
When combined with alcohol, there is a greater risk of overdose and sudden death than either drug alone.
What is amphetamines? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Correct Answer 800
Withdrawal from this substance can cause anxiety, muscle aches, increased tearing, insomnia, runny nose, sweating, and yawning.
What is an Opiate?
Correct Answer 600
Abuse of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs is costly to the United States, exacting this amount annually in costs related to crime, lost work productivity and healthcare.
What is 600 Billion?
Closest Answer wins 1000
Martin Luther King was the leader of which organization?
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Correct Answer 800
This recovery approach encourages small steps and positive changes
Correct Answer 1200
What is harm reduction?
This drug slows both heart rate and respiration, which can be fatal when mixed with alcohol.
What are Sedatives, Hypnotics, and Anxiolytics as well as opiates? (Heroin, oxycontin, percocet, morphine, Xanax, Librium, Valium, Benadryl, Ambien) (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Correct Answer 600
Withdrawal from this drug can cause restless behavior, depressed mood, fatigue, increased appetite, vivid and unpleasant dreams and slowing of daily activity.
What is Amphetamines?
Correct Answer 600
This gender is more likely to start using drugs in high school.
What is both male and female genders.
Correct Answer 900
Which of these major events first distinguished Martin Luther King as an important civil rights leader? 1The Montgomery Bus Boycott 2 The March on Washington 3Brown v Board of Education
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Correct Answer 900
People, places, things
Only the person who picked can answer with no help from their team
What are triggers?
Correct answer 800
When combined with alcohol, these drugs may cause impulsive violent behavior, but more research is needed.
What are Anabolic Steroids? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Correct Answer 2000
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headache, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, depressed mood, and difficulty concentrating.
What is caffeine?
Correct Answer 800
There are now more than 13,000 people in this population who are struggling with addiction.
Who are newborn babies?
Correct answer 1600
When Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, he was the youngest man to receive the award. How old was he?
35
Correct Answer 800
Although substance use disorders are chronic and treatable medical conditions, studies show people with these disorders still face......
Discrimination and stigma (a set of negative attitudes and stereotypes)
Correct Answer 2000
Combined with Alcohol, a person may drink more alcohol and become more impaired than they realize, increasing the risk of alcohol-attributable harms.
What is caffeine?
Correct Answer 2000
Withdrawal from this substance can cause Headaches, Chills, Irritability, Anxiety, Depression, Shakiness, Low appetite or losing weight, Extreme sweating, Restlessness, Stomach pain, Difficulty sleeping, Tiredness during the day
What is THC?
Correct Answer 2000
This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.
What is Tobacco? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Correct Answer 1500
Where did Martin Luther King Jr study and receive his doctorate of divinity degree?
Boston University
Correct Answer 2000