Impact and consequences
This term describes the negative physical and psychological effects that persist after cessation of substance use, often requiring medical intervention for management.
What are withdrawal symptoms?
What percentage of suicides and violent crimes are caused by drug and alcohol use?
what is 50%?
What is naltrexone?
What is 1. Nicotine 2. Alcohol 3. Marijuana
This TV series followed the life of a high school chemistry teacher who turned to making and selling methamphetamine.
What is breaking bad?
This term refers to a severe and potentially life-threatening condition associated with chronic alcohol withdrawal, characterized by delirium, tremors, and hallucinations.
What is delirium tremens (DTs)?
18.5% of adults (age 18 and up), reported using this substance in the past year...
What is marijuana?
This medication is used to treat alcohol use disorder by making drinking alcohol unpleasant, leading to reduced alcohol consumption.
What is disulfiram?
Name one slang term for cocaine?
This musician, frontman of the band Nirvana, died by suicide in 1994, heavily influenced by his struggles with heroin addiction.
This condition, often seen in chronic alcohol users, involves inflammation and scarring of the liver, leading to serious health complications.
What is cirrhosis?
approximately 40.1% of drug overdose deaths involved which substance?
what is prescription opioids?
This medication is commonly used to manage opioid withdrawal symptoms and cravings for opioid use disorder.
What is methadone?
What ingredient is just as addictive but not considered a "drug"?
What is sugar?
This famous anti-drug campaign from the 1980s encouraged abstinence from drugs among youth...
What is the "just say no" campaign?
This type of lung disease is commonly associated with long-term smoking and is characterized by chronic cough and difficulty breathing.
what is COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)?
This substance is the most commonly abused substance and the third most common cause of death in the United States.
what is alcohol?
This medication is often prescribed to help with symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which can co-occur with substance use disorders.
what is methamphetamine?
A place to go "dry out"...
What is detox?
In this 1983 film, this actor plays a Cuban immigrant who becomes a major drug lord in Miami.
Who is Al Pacino?
This term describes the process by which chronic substance use leads to long-term changes in brain function, affecting mood, cognition, and behavior.
what is neuroplasticity?
this percentage of U.S. adults aged 18 and older reported that they drank alcohol in the past month...
what is 54.3%
This medication is used to treat opioid use disorder and can also help manage cravings and prevent relapse by acting as a partial opioid agonist.
What is buprenorphine?
What is the average age a child begins to experiment with drugs?
What is age 13?
In this 1999 film, Heath Ledger plays a troubled young man whose substance abuse leads to a dramatic downfall.
What is "10 things I hate about you"?