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Types of Substances
Drug Use
Vaping
Saying "No!"
Consequences
100
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

This is the main ingredient in cigarettes. It is a leaf that has the drug nicotine in it.

What is tobacco?

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

When people begin using this substance as teenagers, it can impair thinking, memory, and learning functions.

What is marijuana?

200

Examples of this category of drug: paint thinner, gas, glue, nitrous oxide.

What are inhalants?

200

The use of a substance for a purpose not consistent with legal or medical guidelines.

What is misuse?

200

The chemical in cigarettes that reduces the amount of oxygen available to your body and makes it hard for you breathe

What is carbon monoxide?

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 cannot keep up w/ kids who do not because they cannot get enough oxygen.

What is smoking ?

300

This category of drugs includes powerful painkillers.

What are prescription drugs/opiates?

300
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?
300

This device creates an aerosol by using a battery to heat up liquid that usually contains nicotine, flavorings, and other additives.

What is an e-cigarette/vape?

300

This is a group people attend when they want to quit using substances other than alcohol.

What is narcotics anonymous?

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

These drugs speed up heart rate and increase alertness.

What are stimulants?

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

This percentage of youth in the US believe vaping causes no harm

What is 10% of US youth?

400

Sports, dance & choir are examples of these which help to keep you busy and prevent abuse.

What are hobbies?

400

This can happen to you if you are caught with drugs. If it does happen to you, it can stay on your record and impact your ability to get a job, house, vote etc.

What is getting arrested?

500

This category of drugs causes the user to confuse reality with fantasy.

What are hallucinogens?

500

These are 3 types of tests that can be used to check if someone has been using a substance. 

What is hair, urine, and blood tests?

500

When youth and young adults expose their brains to this, they may have trouble paying attention and concentrating, and experience mood disorders and reduced impulse control.

What is nicotine?

500

Name 3 different things you could say to refuse somone 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

A severe condition resulting from drinking a lot of alcohol in a short span of time. Symptoms include vomiting, seizures and, unconsciousness.

What is alcohol poisoning?