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Types of Substances
Drug Abuse
Smoking
Proactive
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, cigars, and dip. It is a leaf that has the drug nicotine in it. You have to be 18 years old to buy 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

No longer being able to afford things such as your car payment, mortgage, grocery bill, or phone bill. 

What is financial instability?

200
Substances that have a high potential for abuse which may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
What are controlled substances or illegal drugs?
200
It can take your brain up to three weeks to recover to full function after using this substance only one time.
What is marijuana?
200

The chemical in cigarettes that reduces the amount of oxygen available to your body and makes it hard for you to exercise or be good at sports.

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 can not keep up w/ kids who do not because they cannot get enough oxygen.
What is smoking or smoke?
300
Substances that are prescribed by a doctor to safely treat one's medical condition; 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
Nurses often find "legal" ways to obtain narcotics

What is bribing providers to "write" them a script?

300
This extremely addictive drug in tobacco is a strong stimulant, but after getting a "boost" it quickly fades and the abuser seeks out the drug again.
What is nicotine?
300

These can be ruined by drug abuse because drugs take away your drive to accomplish things.

What are your goals?

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
Smoking has short term consequences. It makes it harder to breathe and makes you more likely to get sick. Smoking also has _______________, such as Lung-disease, heart-disease and many types of cancer.
What are long-term consequences of smoking?
400
Sports, drama, & music 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 mishandling drugs from the accudose. If it does happen to you, it stays on your record and can cause damage to your reputation and ability to secure a job.

What is getting losing your RN license?

500
Substances that have an age requirement for consumption that are not prohibited by drug laws; examples are tobacco & alcohol.
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

This type of tobacco is not smoked but it still causes deadly cancer of the mouth, throat and gums.

What is chewing tobacco or dip?

500

Name 3 different ways you can help prevent substance use disorder

What is accountability, second nurse as a witness, and continued education.

500

Though withdrawing from all drugs is extremely painful and sickening, for someone addicted to this substance withdrawal could cause many health issues such as liver disease and death.

What is alcohol?