Binge Drinking
17 billion drinks consumed by adults.
What is the amount of alcohol binged annually?
A type of drug that improves the body or its actions.
What are performance-enhancing drugs?
Since they are really powerful, overuse can cause addiction or even death.
How dangerous are prescription drugs?
Tobacco causes 7 million deaths annually around the world, but it can be prevented.
What is the death toll of tobacco?
A substance that stimulates or inhibits the nervous system and are illegal globally.
What is an illicit drug?
Alcohol poisoning, DUI, chronic diseases, and cancer.
What are the consequences of binge drinking?
Athletes
What is the group of people that will most likely use the drug?
Pressure, maintaining focus, and dieting purposes.
What are the most common reasons prescriptions are abused?
$100 billion are lost to treat illnesses caused by tobacco.
How expensive is tobacco treatment?
Marijuana
What is the most popular illicit drug?
It is a depressant.
What is alcohol classified in?
A practice that increases the number of red blood cells in the body.
What is blood doping?
Get a false-positive diagnosis for chronic diseases that are solved with prescriptions.
What is a way for abusers to get prescriptive drugs?
7,000 dangerous chemicals mixed together.
What is in tobacco that makes it dangerous?
27 million people use these drugs.
How popular are illicit drugs?
$249 billion
What is the annual cost of binge drinking in the United States?
Reducing pain, increasing endurance, and improving performance.
What are the enhancing drugs used for?
It sends messages via neurotransmitters to receptors on nearby cells.
What does dopamine do to your brain?
The only legal consumer product that can kill you when used as intended.
What is tobacco?
Broken families and careers, domestic violence, and abuse.
What are the consequences of drug abuse?
Beer: 2-6%, Wine: 8-20%, Liquor: 40-50%
What is the amount of alcohol that is in each drink?
They do not cause dopamine in the brain to drastically and quickly increase like other drugs.
What are the effects of performance-enhancing drugs on the brain?
More than half of the drug overdose deaths are caused by misuse.
What is the number of people who die of prescription drug abuse in the US?
300 people older than 18 become daily smokers.
How easy is it to be addicted to tobacco products?
Cause addiction by the first use, and trying to quit can result in an overdose.
What are the dangers of illicit drugs?