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Alcohol
Tobacco
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Addiction
Public Health/Media & Culture
100
Because women have lower body weight and different muscle to fat ratio.
Why does alcohol affect women more?
100
This addictive agent in tobacco products is also found in small amounts in some other plants.
What is nicotine?
100
The psychoactive agent in marijuana (or cannabis), which affects receptors in the brain that control novelty, pleasure, time, coordination, focus, sense of intensity, depth perception, etc.
What is THC?
100
In the dependency phase of addiction, a user might experience these types of symptoms if they attempt to quit.
What is withdrawal?
100
In the public health model, this is the patient.
What is the community?
200
This is the scientific name for the type of alcohol that people drink.
What is ethanol or ethyl alcohol?
200
Of the two types of secondhand smoke, mainstream is the smoke exhaled by the smoker while this is the type that wafts off of the end of a lit cigarette.
What is sidestream?
200
Marijuana users often feel that the drug improves their focus and concentration because one of the effects of being high is a distortion of the perception of this.
What is time?
200
This describes tolerance, which is often the precursor to developing addiction, and usually shows up in the "regular" use phase.
What is needing more of the substance to get the same effect (body getting used to the substance/being able to use more of the substance without the same level of intoxication)?
200
Averaging about 2.5 hours of exposure to this per day, teenagers have become a target for alcohol marketing through this part of popular culture.
What is music?
300
If teenagers start drinking before the age of 15, this is the percentage statistically likely to become addicted/dependent.
What is 40%?
300
Toxic residue that can cause health problems for anyone overexposed to it: left on fabric, furniture, walls, etc., by someone smoking.
What is thirdhand smoke?
300
Though causation has not been established, more than 30 published scientific studies have linked regular marijuana use at a young age to this mental disorder.
What is schizophrenia?
300
Some of the characteristics of this phase of addiction include increased identification with drug culture and change in choice of friends.
What is daily preoccupation?
300
Our culture sends these to teenagers by telling them not to drink and how dangerous it is, but then glamorizing drinking at holidays and celebrations, and showing alcohol primarily in a positive light in media/entertainment.
What are mixed messages?
400
Binge drinking, the most risky type of drinking, is defined by having 4-5 alcoholic drinks in this time period.
What is two hours?
400
Secondhand smoke that comes off the end of a lit cigarette accounts for 85% of these cancer-causing chemicals in a smoky room.
What are carcinogens?
400
Long term studies have suggested that starting regular marijuana use in teen years affects brain development, because the average teenage user lost this many IQ points.
What is 8?
400
This is one characteristic of the experimentation stage of addiction.
What are: no prior experience/usually happens out of curiosity/usually spur of the moment?
400
These are some of the problems in our society that are often linked to substance abuse? (Any three)
What are (answers may vary -- domestic violence, child abuse, STD's, sexual assault, crime, etc)?
500
Alcohol often plays a role in these four leading causes of death among youth 10-24. (name three out of four)
What are car accidents, accidents (falls, etc.), murder, and suicide?
500
Tobacco products contain hundreds of chemicals, including cadmium (found in batteries), acetone (found in nail polish remove), and this chemical, used as rat poison.
What is arsenic?
500
Because it contains aspects of all of them, marijuana cannot be classified into these three major classes of drugs. (Hint: 1) speeds up heart rate like cocaine, 2) slows down reaction time like pain medication, 3) distorts perception like mushrooms or acid)
What are stimulant, depressant, and hallucinogen?
500
Because it follows a predictable course, causes physiological changes (to the brain), and is treatable, we now understand addiction as this medical phenomenon.
What is disease?
500
While traditional medicine focuses on treating illness by healing patients who are sick, public health focuses on doing this to illness.
What is preventing?