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Alcohol
Prescription Drugs
Marijuana
E-cigarettes
Drug Abuse: General
100
Is alcohol a stimulus or a depressant?
Alcohol is a depressant
100
What is worse, prescription drug abuse or "street" (cocaine, heroin) drug abuse?
Prescription drugs
100
What is the biggest physical effect that happens to people when they smoke marijuana?
Marijuana smoke irritates the lungs, and frequent marijuana smokers can have the same breathing problems that tobacco smokers have.
100
True or false: E-cigarettes don't have nicotine
False. Almost all e-cigarettes contain nicotine
100
What effect does addiction have on your life?
It gives you an uncontrollable craving to keep using the substance
200
Where is alcoholism on the scale of lifestyle-related causes of death in the nation? (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th....) ?
Alcoholism is the 3rd leading lifestyle-related cause of death in the nation
200
True or false: If a user is addicted to using painkillers, mixing the painkillers with alcohol can lead to death.
True
200
What are some short term effects of using marijuana?
Changes in mood, impaired body movement, difficulty with thinking and problem-solving, impaired memory
200
How much has the use of e-cigarettes in the United States gone up in the past 2 years? (only looking at high schoolers using them)
The amount of high schoolers using them has almost tripled in the past two years.
200
How much money in total does America waste abusing drugs (in billions of dollars)?
1.9 billion
300
How many people die each year from drinking underage?
Each year, approximately 5,000 people under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking.
300
How are prescription drugs abused?
Taking someone else's prescribed medication, taking a prescription medication in a way other than how it was prescribed, or taking prescription medication to get high
300
What percent of kids in the nation have used marijuana by 8th grade?
By 8th grade, 16.5% of kids in the nation have used marijuana.
300
True or false: There is little to no information known about the long and short term effects of using e-cigarettes
True
300
What is a short term effect of drug abuse?
Failure or malfunctioning of the Respiratory and Cardiovascular systems
400
What internal body parts can alcohol damage?
Alcohol travels through your bloodstream and can damage your brain, stomach, liver, kidneys and muscles
400
What percent of 12th graders had a problem with prescription drug abuse last year in the United States?
14%
400
What types of mental health problems can arise from smoking marijuana as a teen?
Depression, anxiety, or even suicidal thoughts among teens
400
True or false: E-cigarettes help people quit smoking
False: at the moment. There is not enough research and data to prove that it can help
400
How many emergency room visits were related to drugs in some way last year?
More than 4.6 million emergency room visits were related in some way to drugs in the United States
500
What are some of the short-term effects of alcohol?
In small doses, some of the short-term effects of alcohol are reduced tension and relaxation, but these are also accompanied by reduced inhibition (your ability to stop yourself from doing something you know you shouldn’t), coordination and reaction time – all of which put you at risk.
500
What affect does abusing a prescription drug have on your brain?
Chemicals in your brain that allow you to experience pain and pleasure become over-stimulated and can lead to extreme depression and pain after trying to stop abusing prescription drugs
500
About 1 our of how many users become addicted to marijuana?
About 1 in 11 users becomes addicted to marijuana
500
What is a byproduct of the vapor released in e-cigarettes?
Formaldehyde
500
How does drug abuse change your behavior?
They hijack the normal function of the brain and change the way the brain responds to issues of self-control, judgment, emotion, motivation, memory and learning