Basics of Substance Abuse
This common addiction is found in tobacco products.
What is nicotine?
This drug, often associated with relaxation and munchies, has 4.9% of Americans as users.
What is Marijuana?
These CNS depressants are used for severe pain, diarrhea, and persistent cough.
What are Opioids?
This is the most psychoactive agent in cannabinoids.
What is delta-9-tetrahydrocannibol (THC)?
These two mental states often lead to substance abuse disorders.
What are anxiety and depression?
This occurs when a person fails to fulfill obligations like parenting, school, or work due to substance use.
What is Substance Abuse?
Around this percentage of Americans aged 12 or older are dependent on drugs or alcohol.
What is 8%?
This CNS depressant, often used illicitly in clubs, can lead to unconsciousness, hallucinations, and amnesia.
What is Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (GHB)?
Daily use of this drug introduces four times the particulates of tar into the lungs compared to another harmful substance.
What is Marijuana?
This is the single largest preventable cause of death and illness in the U.S.
What is cigarette smoking?
Substance dependence exists when many of the listed criteria occur.
What is three?
The misuse of these types of drugs exceeds the combined use of all street drugs except marijuana.
What are prescription drugs?
This CNS stimulant is commonly used in coffee and can result in increased alertness and insomnia.
What is caffeine?
This prototype hallucinogen is commonly referred to as "acid."
What is LSD?
Before treating addiction, this crucial step must occur first.
What is detoxification?
This term represents the progressive, chronic use of a substance despite serious health consequences.
What is addiction?
This drug is associated with 0.33% of Americans or about 1 million people.
What is cocaine?
This CNS stimulant, derived from the coca plant, produces intense euphoria and analgesia when abused.
What is cocaine?
Often used at "rave" parties, this hallucinogen comes from the peyote cactus.
What is Mescaline?
This treatment program is one of the most popular available for substance abusers, specifically those addicted to alcohol.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)?
This lethal outcome can arise from the combination of similar substances.
What is an additive effect?
Polysubstance abuse refers to this.
What is the use of two or more substances of abuse?
These CNS depressants, known as tranquilizers, are used for sleep disorders and some forms of epilepsy.
What are Barbiturates and Non-barbiturate Sedative-Hypnotics?
This hallucinogen, also known as Angel Dust, is linked to many cases of death and can cause severe brain damage.
What is PCP?
Name one of the risk factors for drug abuse during the transition periods in an adolescent's life.
What is early drug use, method of drug administration, student absenteeism, or aggressive behavior in adolescents?