STATS
Wild Card
Combined with Alcohol
Consequences
This Week
100

In Canada, there were around 77,000 hospitalizations entirely caused by  _________ in 2015–2016, compared to 75,000 hospitalizations for heart attacks in the same year.

What is Alcohol? 
100

To politely yet firmly stand up for yourself when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this.

What is assertiveness 


100

When mixed with alcohol, this drug creates an abnormally rapid heart rate and amplified impairment of cognitive, psychomotor, and driving performance.

What is Cannabis 

100

1)    The user 2)    Family 3)    Children 4)    Co-workers 5)    Parents 6)    Siblings 7)    Friends 8)    Community

Who are those affected by substance abuse?

100

1. People 2. Places 3. Things

What are Triggers


200

Substance abuse has cost our health care system $____ billion.

What is 8 

200

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 N.A


200

When combined with alcohol, there is a greater risk of overdose and sudden death than either drug alone.

What is Cocaine 


200

1)    Lowered inhibitions 2)    Decreased control over motor skills 3)    Inability to concentrate and focus 4)    Addiction 5)    Heart attack; stroke 6)    Liver failure; cirrhosis 7)    Kidney disease 8) Blackouts

What are the consequences of alcoholism

200

A desire or dream you try to achieve in a certain amount of time, no matter the costs.

What are Goals 
300

60% of illicit drug users in Canada are between the ages of ____ and ____

What is 15 and 24 

300

After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.

What is Marijuana 

300

This drug slows both heart rate and respiration, which can be fatal when mixed with alcohol.

What are Sedatives, Hypnotics, and Anxiolytics as well as opiates? (Heroin, oxycontin, percocet, morphine, Xanax, Librium, Valium, Benadryl, Ambien)

300

1.    Addiction 2.    Respiratory failure 3.    Vomiting 4.    Death 5. Drowsiness 6.    Reduction of pain 7.    Diarrhea 8.    Very uncomfortable withdrawal

What are effects of pain killers/opiates

300

Some high-risk situations to avoid are to not let yourself get too hungry, angry, lonely or tired. What can help you remember these circumstances?


What is H.A.L.T.

400

There are now more than 13,000 people in this population who are struggling with addiction.

What is newborn babies?

400

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 

400

When combined with alcohol, these drugs may cause impulsive violent behavior, but more research is needed.


What are Anabolic Steroids?

400

The following problems occur because of what? -Increase in violence and aggression -Addiction -Drug-induced psychosis -Increase in Respiratory problems -Increase in cardiovascular problems -Risk for HIV, HEP C and TB -Damage to physical appearance

What is Methamphetamine/cocaine addiction

400

Clinical studies have documented both physical- and mental-health benefits of _____ in different patient categories as well as in healthy adults and children

What is Mindfulness

500

Between 1991 and 2007, ___________ deaths doubled in Ontario

What is Opioid Related 

500

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
500

When mixed with alcohol, this drug creates an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular effects, and may result in dangerously low blood pressure.

What is an Inhalant 

500

Bone marrow damage, liver and kidney damage, blackouts, limb spasms,hearing loss and the loss of brain cells are consequences from abusing what type of drugs?

What are inhalants?

500

_____________ applies to predictions of future events, to physical measurements that are already made, or to the unknown

What is Uncertainty