Alcohol
This country has the highest rate of alcohol use per capita.
What is Russia?
This drug is used to reverse the effects of an opiate or opioid overdose
What is Naloxone (NarCan)?
Withdrawal from this drug can produce headaches and drowsiness.
What is caffeine?
Unlike regular chewing gum, nicotine gum must be used this way to get the most benefit
What is stored in the cheek at the gum line?
To politely yet firmly stand up for yourself when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this.
What is assertiveness?
As soon as alcohol enters the body, the body begins to do this process.
What is eliminate it or metabolize it?
This is the difference between opiates and opioids.
What is natural vs. synthetic?
Withdrawal from this drug can include excessive yawning, sneezing, restless legs, sleeplessness, and hypersensitivity to pain.
What is opioids/opiates?
In addition to tobacco, name another product that is found in cigarettes
Acceptable answers: acetone, tar, carbon monoxide, arsenic, benzene, butane, ammonia
This recovery network was established in the 1940s and started in California. It asserts that its therapeutic value for aiding people in recovery is that the program is based on people helping people.
What is Narcotics Anonymous?
Most of the alcohol a person consumes is absorbed through this digestive organ.
What is the small intestine?
Usage of this drug as low as 25-millionths of a gram can produce profound effects on the user.
What is LSD?
Withdrawals from this drug can include headaches, mood swings, and excessive irritability.
What is nicotine?
This medication for smoking cessation works as a pill you take daily that helps block nicotine receptors and one side effect to watch for is vivid dreams
What is Chantix (varenicline)?
After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.
What is Marijuana?
Death from alcohol poisoning occurs by this process.
What is shutdown of the central nervous system i.e. heart and lung failure?
The drug mescaline (peyote) comes from this type of plant
What is a cactus?
Withdrawals from this drug can include tremors, hallucinations, seizure, and death
What is alcohol?
Name two forms of nicotine replacement therapy
Possible answers: gum, patch, lozenge, inhaler
This term refers to an emerging family of drugs containing one or more synthetic chemicals related to an amphetamine-like stimulant found naturally in the Khat plant. Some users experience paranoia, agitation, and hallucinations; some even display psychotic and violent behavior, and deaths have been reported in several instances.
What is "bath salts"? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
This is the primary neurotransmitter (neurochemical) affected by alcohol consumption
What is GABA?
This is the only drug to truly be classified as an "all arounder" in that it meets criteria as a stimulant, depressant, and hallucinogen
What is marijuana?
Withdrawals from this drug can include excessive appetite, excessive sleeping, paranoia, chills, and severe depression
What is methamphetamine?
This medication, which is also an antidepressant, can be given to help quit smoking as well as depression
What is wellbutrin (bupropion)?
This drug as an approved anesthetic in humans and was discontinued in 1965 because patients often became agitated, delusional, and irrational while recovering from its anesthetic effects.
What is PCP?