Substance Dependence
A name for a substance use disorder.
What is an addiction?
This is the legal age to drink alcohol products in Iowa.
What is 21 years old?
A plant-derived substance often called "natural."
What is marijuana?
These are three types of tobacco products.
What are cigars, cigarettes, vapes (e-cigarettes), snuff or chew?
These are parts of our lives that are important and worth protecting.
What are our values?
This is something we cannot change about our risk on the path to addiction?
What is our biology?
What are impairment and health?
This is a dangerous side effect of students using marijuana.
What is lack of normal brain development?
This type of tobacco product is safer than another.
This is the primary motivation to develop stronger and more dangerous substances.
What is money?
This is how we control our movement on the path to addiction.
What are our choices?
This is the most potent type of alcohol (highest alcohol content).
What are distilled spirits (rum, gin, tequila, whiskey, vodka)?
These are three types of marijuana products.
What are drinks, candy/gummies, vape oil, baked goods, concentrates?
This drug is part of the opioid family.
What is fentanyl?
This substance interferes with brain function (thinking and decision-making).
What is EVERY substance?
This behavior leads us closer to the trigger point (or addiction point).
What are high-risk choices?
Name two side effects of alcohol use.
What are slurred speech, lack of coordination, blurred vision, slowed reaction time, nausea / vomiting, hangovers, memory loss / blackouts?
This behavior leads us away from the trigger/addiction point.
What are low-risk choices?
This number of confiscated illegal pills in 2023 contained deadly amounts of fentanyl.
The most important part of the week you will remember a year from now.
What is ______? (Wild Card!)
This biological response would encourage a person to not become addicted to a substance.
What is a negative reaction?
This is the low-risk guideline for adults to drink alcohol.
What is 0-1-2-3?
This is how marijuana affects a person.
What is relaxes brain and activates body?
How does Narcan medication work to reverse an overdose?
When someone experiences this biological reaction to a substance, they will be more likely to become dependent.
What is a pleasurable/positive response?