Drugs
Harm reduction
Consequences
Terminology
Recovery Skills
100

A strong addictive illegal stimulant derived from coca or prepared synthetically.

What is Cocaine

100

An intervention in a case of physical dependence to a drug; the process and experience of a withdrawal syndrome; and any of various treatments for acute drug overdose.

What is Drug detoxification?

100

Physical and mental symptoms that occur after stopping or reducing intake of a drug.

What is Withdrawal?

100

also known as a slip: when an individual in recovery reverts to using alcohol or drugs and stops again within a short time.

What is a lapse?

100

a reminder of a past trauma. This reminder can cause a person to feel overwhelming sadness, anxiety, or panic.

What are triggers

200
Purely from the point of total cost and harm to the community, which is usually considered by experts to be the most 'dangerous' drug? This is probably due to its widespread use in most places.
What is alcohol.
200

a place where drug users can exchange used hypodermic syringes for new ones.

What is the needle exchange program?

200

Long term effects of using this substance may cause: Confusion,Hallucinations and Extreme cases of anxiety and paranoia.

What is K2/Spice?

200

When a person who's trying to stop using drugs can make mistakes, feel bad, and start using again.

What is relapse?


200

Any inner dialogue you have with yourself that may be limiting your ability to believe in yourself and your own abilities, and to reach your potential.

What is negative self talk.

300

An opioid drug made from morphine, a natural substance taken from the seed pod of the Asian opium poppy plant.

What is Heroin

300

The use of medications, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, to provide a “whole-patient” approach to the treatment of substance use disorders.

What is Medicated Assisted Treatment?

300

Long term effects of using this substance may cause: Headaches, Convulsions and seizures, Heart disease, heart attack, and stroke, Mood problems, Sexual trouble, Lung damage.

What is Cocaine?


300

Heroin’s synthetic cousin and is up to 100 times more potent than morphine and many times that of heroin.

What is fentanyl? 

300

This is the process by which the addicted brain invents excuses that allow the person in recovery to edge close enough to relapse situations that accidents can happen.

What is Justification

400

A designer drug mixture is composed of dried herbs and spices sprayed with chemicals that, when smoked, create a high similar to THC, the main active ingredient in marijuana.

What is K2/Spice.

400

a "nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem".

What is Narcotics Anonymous?

400

Long term effects of using this substance may cause: insomna, collapsed veins for people who inject the drug, damaged tissue inside the nose for people who sniff or snort it , and infection of the heart lining and valves

What is heroin?

400

Free street drug samples

What are Testers?

400

A chemical that is released in the reward areas of the brain.

What is Dopamine?

500
The most commonly abused drug across the nation
What is Marijuana
500

a treat for narcotic overdose in an emergency situation.

What is Narcan?


500

Long-term abuse of this substance can cause cancer of the liver, mouth, tongue, throat, esophagus and stomach.

What are Alcohol?


500
For the best chance of staying sober, what is the MINIMUM length of time a person should stay in treatment?
What is 90 days.
500

Places where people can share personal stories, express emotions, and be heard in an atmosphere of acceptance, understanding, and encouragement.

What are support groups?