Stats & Big Facts
Movies
Interesting
Mental Health
Relapse
100
In the 1950s, the U.S. military and CIA researched [BLANK] as a possible "truth drug," which could be used for brainwashing or inducing prisoners to talk.
LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide)
100
This movie, released in 2000, tells the story of Gwen Cummings, a successful writer in New York City who lives her life according to her own rules. Unfortunately, her partying lifestyle leads to a series of disastrous events that result in her being court-ordered to spend 28 days in a rehabilitation center.
28 Days
100
Where does rain come from?
Clouds
100
What is the name of the medication that is designed to rapidly reverse opioid overdose?
Naloxone (Narcan)
100
List three ways to help prevent a relapse
Understanding and staying away from your triggers (people, places, things, experiences)
Using coping skills, going to therapy, spending time outside
Support Groups, peer support, sponsor
Medication (eg Naltrexone)
Living a healthy lifestyle
What else? Name two things not on this list for an extra 200 points!
200
[BLANK] is the most commonly used drug, followed by [BLANK] and [BLANK].
100 extra points for each of the second two blanks!
Alcohol
Nicotine, marijuana
200
The film stars Denzel Washington as an alcoholic airline pilot who miraculously crash-lands his plane after a mechanical failure, saving nearly everyone on board. Although hailed a hero, an investigation soon begins to cast the captain in a different light.
Flight (2012)
200
What year was the Moon landing?
1969
200
What is the term for when someone experiences a mental illness and a substance use disorder simultaneously?
Dual diagnosis, or also referred to as co-occurring disorder
An estimated 9.2 million U.S adults experience both a mental illness and substance use disorder in a given year.
200
The National Institute of Drug Abuse says that relapse rates for addiction are similar to those of other [BLANK BLANKS] like diabetes and asthma.
Chronic diseases
300
According to the latest National Safety Council Data, how many preventable marijuana-related deaths occurred in 2022 in the USA?
1183
(+-200)
300
A young woman with a wonderful fiancé, a promising career, and supportive friends and family loses everything in the blink of an eye when she survives an unimaginable tragedy, emerging from recovery with an opioid addiction and unresolved grief. In the following years, she forms an unlikely friendship with her would-be father-in-law that gives her a fighting chance to put her life back together and move forward.
A Good Person (2023)
300
What are diamonds made of?
Carbon
300
What are the three main types of responses to stress?
Fight, flight, and freeze.
300
What are the three stages of a relapse?
Emotional, mental, and physical
400
Excluding distilled spirits, this was the first addictive ingredient isolated from a natural product.
Morphine, which was extracted from crude opium by a German pharmacist, in 1806.
400
The film stars Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet and deals with a father-son relationship increasingly strained by the latter's drug addiction.
Beautiful Boy (2018)
400
What is the square root of 25?
5
400
50% of mental health problems begin by what age?
14
400
What are the stages of change?
Precontemplation
Contemplation
Preparation
Action
Maintenance
(Relapse)
500
New brain imaging studies suggest that addictions to [BLANK] and [BLANK] are associated with a shared brain circuit that could be an optimal target for neuromodulation therapies. Recent evidence shows that non-neuronal cells called astrocytes influence how we respond to drugs and our vulnerability to addiction.
Nicotine and Alcohol
500
Emerging from a detox clinic, a young addict tries to stay clean while living with her mother for the next four days.
Four Good Days (2020)
500
What is the temperature at which water boils?
212 degrees F / 100 degrees C
500
The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (ABCD) study recently found that children exposed to [BLANK] prenatally were more likely to have mental health issues at ages 11-12.
cannabis
500
Which US state has the most tobacco users?
More than one-third of Kentuckians ages 12 and older report using tobacco of some kind in the past month. Kentucky also leads the country in cigarette users, with 1 in 4 people self-reporting smoking cigarettes.