Alcohol
The legal drinking age in Nova Scotia.
What is 19?
This is the legal age to purchase tobacco products in Nova Scotia.
What is 19?
The need to take more of a drug over time to feel effects.
What is TOLERANCE?
This newly legalized drug is available for purchase at age 19.
What is CANNABIS?
Dependance on the rush and altered mindset caused by gambling is often compared to drug and alcohol abuse.
What is ADDICTION?
The "slowing down" effect of alcohol means the drug is classified as this.
What is a DEPRESSANT?
The highly addictive compound often found in tobacco products.
What is NICOTINE?
An unwanted change occurring in the body resulting from drug use.
What is a SIDE-EFFECT?
This drug can lead to hair loss, acne, and irritability.
What are ANABOLIC STEROIDS?
The state of being unable to pay back what you owe.
What is BEING IN DEBT?
This organ that processes and breaks down alcohol can become overworked with overconsumption.
What is the LIVER?
The combination of smoke from a lit cigarette and exhaled smoke after someone smokes.
What is SECOND-HAND SMOKE?
This is the only proven method of sobering up.
What is a TIME?
This stimulating drug can cause heart attacks, stroke, and other circulatory problems.
What is COCAINE or METHAMPHETAMINE?
Greater than 10% of Canadian teens report gambling at this widespread location.
What is ONLINE?
Drinking a lot in a short period of time (bonus points if you know the numbers).
What is BINGE-DRINKING?
This product, also known as dip or snuff, is used by placing it between the gum and lip.
What is SMOKELESS TOBACCO/CHEWING TOBACCO?
The term used for taking too much drugs, often resulting in a coma or death.
What is an OVERDOSE?
This drug, leading to lethargy, scars, itchiness, and hormone imbalances has claimed the life of many-a-rockstar.
What is HEROIN?
35% of Nova Scotia adolescents report gambling some time in the past ___.
What is a WEEK?
Alcohol increases the risk of this by 500%.
What is a CAR ACCIDENT?
This term refers to mortality that can be avoided, a subject that smoking is the worldwide leading cause of.
What is PREVENTABLE DEATH?
3 of the 5 methods of drug consumption.
What are:
1. Swallowing, 2. Smoking, 3. Snorting, 4. Injection, 5. Absorption ?
What is FENTANYL?
While regular lottery players wager an average of $500 per year, people who use this type of gambling spend an average of $5000.
What are VLTs (Video Lottery Terminals)?