Red Ribbon Week

Alcohol

100

What is the Legal Drinking age in the US?

21

200

Is alcohol a stimulant or depressant?

Depressant

300

Which contains alcohol?

a) Beer

b) Wine

c) Whiskey 

d) All of them

d) all of them

400

Binge drinking is...?

a) Giving up drinking

b) Consuming multiple alcoholic drinks at a very rapid pace

c) Abstaining from drinking

b) Consuming multiple alcoholic drinks at a very rapid pace

500

A dangerous and sometimes deadly consequence of drinking too much alcohol in a short amount of time is known as:

a) abstinence

b) Addiction

c) Alcohol poisoning

c) Alcohol poisoning

Stimulants

100

A mild stimulant found in coffee, tea, and soda

Caffeine

200

Stimulant found in tobacco 

Nicotine

300

An illegal stimulant that can cause heart attacks no matter how old you are

Cocaine

400

Name a legal and an illegal stimulant 

Legal- Caffeine, nicotine (21+)

Illegal- Cocaine

500

True or false? Stimulants mellow a person, lower their heart rate, and cause them to calm down

False- It speeds up the heart rate

Tobacco and Vaping

100

The addictive drug found tobacco products

Nicotine

200

What is vaping?

Tobacco-less and smokeless smoking apparatus which is inhaled and exhaled through the mouth

300

The legal age to buy cigarettes or tobacco products in the US

Right now it is 18, but on November 13th, you will need to be 21!

400

True or false?  There are no chemicals or nicotine found in e-cigarettes (vaping).

False- There are plenty of chemicals and some vaping apparatus contain nicotine

500

True or false: There are no carcinogens (or cancer causing agents) found in vaping

False:  Just like cigarettes, there are many harmful chemicals and carcinogens found in vaping

Drugs in General

100

This type of classification of drugs makes you hallucinate or see things that aren't really there:

a) Stimulants

b) Depressants

c) Hallucinogens 

c) Hallucinogens

200

What is a drug?

A substance ingested into the body that changes the way a person feels, behaves, or functions.

300

What do depressants do?

Slows down the heart rate.  This may cause a person to be drowsy or sleepy

400

What are OTC drugs (Over the Counter)?

Types of drugs such as Tylenol that you can purchase without a doctors prescription.  They are sold in some stores

500

What is addiction

A physical or mental dependency on a drug, where it is hard to stop using the drug without experiencing withdrawal symptoms

True/False

100

You always need a prescription for all legal drugs

False: OTC medicine

200

All drugs are illegal

False- Prescription and OTC medicine is not illegal

300

Stimulants can speed up the body and the brain

True

400

There are no health risks if you vape instead of smoke regular cigarettes

False

500

You cannot get addicted to prescribed drugs

False:  Drug Abuse and Misuse.