Substances
Cocaine is in this class of drugs:
A) Depressants
B) Stimulants
C) Hallucinogens
D) Dissociatives
What are stimulants?
This substance is used at the highest prevalence in the Essex Westford School District.
What is alcohol?
People develop this when they gradually need more of a drug to get the same effects.
What is tolerance?
LGBTQ+ youth in EWSD are more likely to use substances and be affected by issues around that than cis/het youth.
A) True
B) False
What is true?
Ketamine is used:
A) as an animal tranquilizer
B) as a leavener in baked goods
C) to make glass
D) as fertilizer
What are animal tranquilizers?
This percentage of EWSD highs school students reported ever using cocaine.
A) 1%
B) 8%
C) 6%
D) 3%
What is 3% ?
Bayer, a major pharmaceutical company, invented this substance in 1898.
What is heroin?
EWSD students reported this as being the most common reason they tried an electronic vapor product.
Why are friends and family members using them?
Marijuana mimics this naturally-occurring chemical in your brain and body.
What is anandamide?
This percentage of EWSD middle schoolers reported ever riding in a vehicle with a driver under the influence of alcohol.
A) 2%
B) 5%
C) 17%
What is 17% ?