Is it all the same?
The use of mood-altering drugs that interferes with or has a negative effect on a person’s life.
What is Substance Use Disorder
Naturally occurring chemicals in the brain that carry messages between special cells
What are Neurotransmitters?
This occurs when the user replaces his or her primary drug with a secondary drug that has different physical effects.
What is Drug-Switching?
This drug is associated with a range of health harms, including psychosis and other mental disorders, cardiovascular and renal dysfunction, infectious disease transmission, and overdose
What is Methamphetamine?
This actor says he used drugs before he was a teenager, spending most of his early career under the influence. He had several high-profile arrests in the late 1990s and early 2000s while misusing alcohol, cocaine, and heroin and spent time in a California prison and a state-run rehab facility.
Who is Robert Downey Jr?
A term used to describe severe problems related to the compulsive and habitual use of mood-altering substances.
What is Addiction?
These occur when individuals with physical dependence to alcohol or other drugs cut down or stop taking the drug
What are Withdrawal Symptoms?
This occurs when individuals use both a primary drug and one or more secondary drugs, frequently taking depressants and stimulants together.
What is the Upper-Downer Cycle?
42% of pills tested for this drug contained at least 2 mg, considered a potentially lethal dose.
What is Fentanyl?
She made headlines in 1989 by going to rehab at just 13 and announcing she was an addict. From a famous, and famously troubled, acting family, she was 6 when the movie E.T. launched her career.
Who is Drew Barrymore?
This results from prolonged exposure to a mood-altering drug when the cells in the body become accustomed to the drug and begin to adapt to the presence of that drug
What is Physical Dependence
When the same amount of a drug begins to have less effect or when the amount of a drug needs to be increased to have the same effect as before.
What is Tolerance?
These are substances that can change people’s moods or feelings.
What are Psychoactive Drugs?
Abusing these drugs can cause damage to the parts of the brain that control thinking, moving, vision, and hearing. Cognitive abnormalities can range from mild impairment to severe dementia.
What are inhalants?
From imprisonment to helping young people battle drug addiction, to acting and producing. He has starred in dozens of films including Desperado, Heat, the From Dusk Till Dawn franchise, Con Air, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, the Spy Kids movies,
Who is Danny Trejo?
This is an irresistible urge to behave in a certain way, especially against one's conscious wishes.
What is a Compulsion?
When 2 drugs have similar physical effects and one is often substituted for the other when the primary drug of choice is not available. If the secondary drug can keep withdrawal symptoms from occurring, the primary and secondary drugs are cross-tolerant.
What is Cross-tolerance?
Actions that occur when a person takes a large amount of a drug or takes a drug over a long period of time.
What are Secondary Drug Effects?
In the United States, this drug is a leading preventable cause of death, with an estimated 178,000 deaths each year due to its excessive use.
What is alcohol?
This Sopranos actress says she became an alcoholic as a young woman trying to launch her career. She credits 12-step programs with helping her recover in 1992.
Who is Edie Falco?
An idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person's mind.
What is an Obsession?
Also known as kindling, this occurs when the user’s body becomes extremely sensitive to a drug
What is Reverse Tolerance?
The effects that a drug has on a person shortly after the drug is taken.
What are Primary Drug Effects
Frequent or heavy use of this drug has been linked to problems in cognitive functions like learning and memory, attention, processing speed, perceptual motor function, and language.
What is Cannabis?
This star had roles in such films as the Outsiders and Tommy Boy and TV shows like The West Wing and 9-1-1 Lone Star. He says his drinking began when he was a teenager and grew more out-of-control the more famous he became.
Who is Rob Lowe?