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Drug Abuse
The Brain
Saying "No!"
Consequences
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Any substance other than food or water that changes the way your body functions.

What is a drug?

100
Using a substance to the point that it alters a person’s judgment and decision making, leading to dangerous behaviors.
What is substance abuse?
100

The chemical our brain releases when we do something pleasurable or for our survival; our brain's "happy juice"

What is dopamine?

100
This takes place when friends or people your own age try to get you to do something.
What is Peer Pressure.
100

These are what happen when addiction starts negatively affecting your relationships, your work ethic, and personal motivation. 

What are social consequences?

200

Substances that have a high potential for abuse which may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence. The police have a narcotics team devoted to this category of drug especially.

What are controlled substances or illegal drugs?

200

It can take your brain up to four weeks to recover to full function after using this substance only one time.

What is heroin?

200

Dopamine is one of several of these chemicals that our brain uses to send various signals throughout our body. Adrenaline and serotonin are another couple.

What are neurotransmitters?

200
This group will have a great influence on how you grow up. They help to raise you and influence you daily. If they are smokers, you are far more likely to try smoking.
What are your parents of family?
200

This limits your ability to breath properly due to the damage done to the lungs. Kids who do this can not keep up w/ kids who do not because they cannot get enough oxygen.

What is smoking or smoke?

300

Substances that require a prescription by a doctor to safely treat one's medical condition, needing a special note or permission to obtain; but when taken when such symptoms aren’t present, they affect the brain in ways very similar to illegal drugs.

What are prescription drugs?

300

Teens abuse this innocent OTC substance to get high. It causes weakness, numbness, nausea or vomiting, increased heart rate and blood pressure and brain damage. Normally, you take it to treat flu or rhinovirus symptoms instead.

What is cough/cold medicine?

300

This is the system of action and reward that we use as our primary system for survival. It works mainly by associating certain physical or behavioral triggers with survival and creates urges and cravings for those triggers.

What is the reinforcement loop?

300

This is the model used to help articulate a values- or emotion-based rejection to somebody trying to pressure you into doing something you don't want to do or are uncertain of.

What is the Be FIRM model?

300
When someone who is addicted to drugs stops taking that drug, they go through this, which involves pain, shakes, vomiting, and severe headaches.
What is withdrawal?
400

Substances that are sold from a drug store directly to a person without a prescription; can be abused if taken for another purpose than intended.

What are over-the-counter (OTC) drugs?

400
Abuse of a substance to the point where your body or brain needs the drug to function properly.
What is addiction?
400

Your brain is a part of this system and uses it to send signals and commands to various parts of your body and receive sensory feedback.

What is the nervous system?

400
Sports, drama, & music are examples of these which help to keep you busy and prevent abuse.
What are hobbies?
400

This punishment can happen to you if you are caught with drugs and at any age. 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 or charged with a crime?

500

Substances that have an age requirement for consumption that are not prohibited by drug laws; examples are tobacco & alcohol, but not cocaine or heroin.

What are legal drugs?

500
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?
500

Name a type of neurotransmitter besides dopamine.

What is adrenaline, noradrenaline, serotonin, gaba, acetylcholine, glutamate, endorphins, oxytocin, endorphins, etc.?

500
Name 3 different things you could say to refuse womone asking you to try drinking.
What is No!, I have a game tomorrow, I don't want to, my mom is coming to get me, I have to go, etc. etc.
500

Though withdrawing from all drugs is extremely painful and sickening, for someone addicted to this liquid substance withdrawal could cause death.

What is alcohol?