ADDICTION
The most commonly consumed psychoactive substance on earth
What is Caffeine Addiction?
What drug stays in your system the longest?
Marijuana
Identifying and changing dysfunctional thinking, behavior, and emotional responses
What is Cognitive therapy (CT)?
Illegal drugs kill more people than prescription drugs
FALSE
Who has the highest drinking age in the world?
GERMANY, FRANCE, CHINE, UNITED STATES
GERMANY and also parts of India (25)
WHAT ARE THE THREE FACTORS OF ADDICTION?
GENETIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND MENTAL
What drug is the most commonly used?
Alcohol
The process of rehabilitation begins days after acute injury.
False: immediately
It takes the liver approximately 30 minutes to break down one standard drink
FALSE 1 hour
This iconic musician is one of the top earning dead celebrities today, still earning over 50 million/year for his music despite dying from complications of prescription drug addiction back in 1977
Elvis Presley
HOW GREATER OF A CHANCE IS IT THAT SOMEONE GETS AN ADDICTION THROUGH GENETICS?
4X GREATER CHANCE
HOW LONG CAN METHAMPHETAMINE KEEP YOU AWAKE FOR?
2 DAYS
What is M.A.T.?
Medication Assisted Therapy (Suboxone, etc.)
Opioid abuse results in more deaths than Heroin and Cocaine.
TRUE
There is a flesh eating drug out in the world
True or Flase
TRUE. Crystal meth is noted for causing horrific scarring in users, but these scars come after a long period of using the drug. There’s a street drug from Russia that puts the flesh-eating properties of crystal meth to shame. Called ‘krokodil’, this lethal mix of pills, petrol, cooking oil, and lighter fluid literally cause the skin of its users to rot in record time. Eventually, users will be left with skin that quite resembles that of a crocodile, which is probably where the drug got its name. It is a commonly used drug in the poorest communities of Russia, where an estimated three million people have gotten hooked on the drug.
WHAT FOUR PARTS OF THE BODY DOES A DRUG ADDICITON AFFECT?
KIDNEYS, LIVER, HEART, AND LUNGS
After the first hour of cocaine use, a person’s risk of A heart attack increases nearly 5 times
What is the "only requirement for A.A membership?"
A desire to stop drinking.
one infant is born every hour in the U.S. with symptoms of opioid withdrawal
true
Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of this number.
13
A sedative-hypnotic prescribed to people for short-term treatment of insomnia
What is Ambience Addiction?
Drugs work in the brain because they have similar ____________ a) electrical charges as brain cells b) size and shape as natural brain chemicals c) nerve cells as the brain 9. Drugs of abuse create intense
B. Drugs “fool” the brain because they are similar in size and shape as the natural brain chemicals called neurotransmitters.
Which step is "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves?"
Step 4
True or false: LSD becomes lodged in a person's spin and can be suddenly released and cause a flashback long after the LSD was taken.
FALSE
true or false? Planes are not allowed to fly over Disney
TRUE!