Drugs & Drug abuse
What is the definition of the word drug?
A medicine or other substance which has an effect on the mind or body when ingested or introduced to the body.
A drug and/or an alcohol treatment programme provided in a residental setting. It is an inteste programme aimed to support and care for those to become drug free.
What is Rehab?
Name three warning signs of someone with substance abuse.
Develop memory/cognition problems, being lethargic, problems at school, stealing money, lashes out when questioned about substance abuse, neglected appearance, lying about the substance.
This takes place when friends or people your own age try to get you to do something.
What is Peer Pressure?
Name the guitarist and singer who overdosed on prescription drugs
Who is Elvis Presley?
Abuse of a substance to the point where your body or brain needs the drug to function properly.
What is addiction?
What is the removal of drugs through the system comfortably known as?
What is detox/detoxification?
Name three physical consequences that smoking can have on your body.
What is rotting teeth, yellow teeth, lung damage (black/unhealthy lungs), heart attacks, cancer, yellow fingernails.
Sports, drama, & music are examples of these which help to keep you busy and prevent abuse.
What are hobbies, interests?
The main ingredient in cigarettes is?
What is tobacco?
True or False: Only certain people can be addicted to drugs.
False
Long term medicine used to help prevent relaspe and addiction?
What are the numbers that can be called incase of emergancy or incase of needing support known as? (e.g. A number called for kids who are struggling with mental health)
What are hotlines, help phones, phone services?
These can be ruined by drug abuse because drugs take away your drive to accomplish things.
True or False: Substance abuse is the same thing as being addicted to drugs
False.
Substances that are sold from a drug store directly to a person without a prescription; can be abused if taken for another purpose than intended.
What are over-the-counter (OTC) drugs?
Therapy used to help create a change in a persons life?
What is behavioural therapy?
Why do people abuse drugs?
What is health problems, job problems, legal troubles, family troubles, social problems?
Name 3 different things you could say to refuse someone asking you to have a drink at a party.
What is no thank you, no, I dont want to, my parents are coming to pick me up, I have to go, etc.
Which organ is affected the most by drinking alchol?
What is the liver?
Substances that have an age requirement for consumption that are not prohibited by drug laws; examples are tobacco & alcohol.
What are legal drugs?
What are some methods to help someone who is struggling with substance abuse?
What is confrontation, understand the signs and symptom, providing support, contact support numbers (Rehab, depression line, etc), talk over types of treatment, contact support groups, aftercare planning?
What happens to a person when they withdrawl from drug abuse?
What is Headaches (dizzyess), difficulty breahing, racing heart, nausea, stomach aches, muscle tension, shakes, twitches, sweating.
This group will have a great influence on how you grow up. They help to raise you and influence you daily. If they are smokers, you are far more likely to try smoking.
What are your parents of family?
What is the name of the organization that tries to stop people from drinking and driving?
What is MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving).