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?
If only used once this substance may cause coma, seizure, and stroke.
What is cocaine?
It also causes heart attack (fatality), difficulty feeling pleasure, paranoia..
What is the more commonly known name for Warneke Syndrome?
What is wet brain?
A group of people that you have known since birth.
What is family?
Substances that have a high potential for abuse which may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
What are controlled substances or illegal drugs?
It can take your brain up to three weeks to recover to full function after using this substance only one time.
What is marijuana?
Can cause throat, mouth, larynx, breast, liver colorectal, esophageal, pancreatic, cancer.
Alcohol
What can cause major depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder?
What is cocaine?
When incarcerated.
What is loss of freedom?
A drug that can cause significant and potentially fatal medical complications at first use.
What is cocaine
Teens abuse this OTC 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?
These can be ruined by drug abuse because drugs take away your drive to accomplish things.
What are your goals?
Len Bias was a college basketball player who had just signed w/ the NBA. His career and his life were ruined because of this.
What is cocaine?
Not able to provide.
What is Loss of job.
What substance can cause diminished gray matter and white matter in the brain?
Alcohol
Abuse of a substance to the point where your body or brain needs the drug to function properly.
What is addiction?
Sports, drama, & music are examples of these which help to keep you busy and prevent abuse.
Coping skills
This can happen to you if you are caught w/ drugs. If it does happen to you, it stays on your record and can make it impossible to get into College, private high schools, or even get the job that you want.
What is getting arrested?
Repossession
What is Loss of possessions.
What is the medical term for Wet Brain?
What is Warneke Syndrome?
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?
What is it called when you have: irreversible memory impairments, anterograde amnesia (inability to form new memories), hallucinations, confabulation, involuntary movements, coma, crossed eyes, sagging eyelids.
Warneke Syndrome
Though withdrawing from all drugs is extremely painful and sickening, for someone addicted to this substance withdrawal could cause death.
What is alcohol?
Inability to move or rationalize
What is Loss of physical and mental health