Types of Substances
Any substance other than food or water that changes the way your body functions.
What is a drug?
Using a substance to the point that it alters a person’s judgment and decision-making, leading to dangerous behaviors.
What is Substance Abuse?
What race drinks the most?
Cacuasions
substances with a high use potential that can cause extreme mental or physical dependence
Whar are illegal drugs or controlled substances?
It can take your brain up to three weeks to recover to full function after using this substance only one time.
What is Marijuana?
If a pregnant woman abuses drugs, does it affect the fetus?
Research shows that presicription drugs used by pregnant women can have severe health consequences for infants.
Medications that a doctor prescribes to safely treat a patient's medical condition nevertheless when used when such symptoms are not present they have impact on the brain that is surprisingly similar to those of illegal narcotics.
What are prescription drugs?
A lot of teens abuse this substance to get high. It causes weakness, numbness, nausea or vomiting, increased heart rate, and blood pressure, and brain damage.
What is cough/cold medicine
What are some controlled substanes in MN?
Cocaine and Methamphetamine.
Heroin.
Amphetamines, PCP, and Hallucinogens (i.e. LSD)
Marijuana / THC.
Various narcotics (i.e. opiates, benzodiazepine, prescription medications, etc.)
Without a prescription, drugs that are sold to individuals directly from pharmacies have the potential to be abused if used inappropriately.
What is over-the-counter drugs
Abuse of a substance to the point where your body or brain needs the drug to function properly.
What is addiction?
How quickly can I get addicted to a drug?
Reasearch shows it only takes a couple weeks
It's the most commonly abused and used drug in all age groups
What is alcohol?
Psychological addiction is when your brain thinks that it needs a substance to function properly. However, this type of addiction is when your body is so used to the drug that it needs it to function properly.
what is physical addiction?
which gender drinks more?
Adult males are said to drink more than adult women because they most liely binge drink.