Alcohol
Marijuana
Tobacco/Vaping
Prescription Medications
Brain and Body
100
What is the legal age to use alcohol, marijuana and tobacco in the USA?
21
100
What are 2 slang names for marijuana?
Weed and Pot
100
What is the addictive drug in tobacco and most vapes
Nicotine
100
These are a type of medicine that doctors give people to help with ADHD or serious sleep problems
Prescription Stimulants (like Ritalin and Adderal)
100
Special body cells that carry messages between the brain and body.
Neurons
200
Alcohol and other drugs make it hard to remember things and learn. This part of your brain is involved in memory and learning.
Hippocampus
200
What is the active drug in marijuana that gets people high? (Bonus points if you can pronounce the whole name)
THC: Tetrahydrocannabinol
200
How many chemicals and toxins does cigarette smoke release?
The smoke from combustible tobacco products contains more than 7,000 chemicals and releases toxins that can lead to lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema.
200
What are 3 ways people MISUSE prescriptions?
Not following the instructions from the doctor
Taking pills that are not prescribed to them
Taking them to get high
200
Drugs can make people very emotional and sensitive. This part of the brain helps control your emotions.
Amygdala
300
What is the term for alcohol and other drugs that poison your brain?
Neurotoxin
300
What are 3 long-term effects of marijuana use?
Problems with memory and learning skills, problems breathing, coughing or lung illness, severe nausea and vomitting, mental illness (depression, anxiety, paranoia, delusions, hallucinations)
300
Name 4 different nicotine products
Cigarettes, Cigars, Copenhagen (Chew), Snuff, Dip, Snus, Vapes, pipe tobacco, hookahs
300
You have a headache and a friend offers you a pill the doctor gave them and they think it might help. What would you do/say?
Say NO! Tell them that's not how you're supposed to take prescriptions. Tell them you'll go to the nurse or parent instead, etc.
300
Drugs make it hard to say "no" to bad decisions. This part of your brain helps you think, make decisions, and control your actions.
Prefrontal Cortex
400
What is a standard drink size?
400
What are 5 short-term effects of marijuana?
Increased heart rate, Loss of coordination and slower reactions, altered sense of time, anxiety, fear, distrust, or panic, increased hunger, thinking your relaxed (but you're not)
400
What are 4 reasons kids vape?
Fun flavors and easy access
advertisements designed to target kids,
appealing technology,
belief that they’re safer than cigarettes
400
3 things MISUSING prescription stimulants can cause:
High blood pressure, fast heartbeat, high body temperature, sleeping problems, angry reactions, heart problems, and addiction
400
What is theAVERAGE age your brain and body fully develop? *Bonus points: which part of the brain develops last*
25! Boys tend to take longer, seometimes even until age 28! (Prefrontal Cortex develops last)
500
You are with your best friend and they offer you some alcohol in a water bottle, how do you respond?
NO! Examples: Make up an excuse or tell that what it does to your body. Tell them most people your age don't drink and that your brain and body are more important to you!
500
What is the marijuana caused illness that people of all ages are ending up in the emergency room with?
Scromitting: Cannabis hypermesis
Screaming in pain and constantly vomitting due to the body and brains bad reaction to THC
500
What comes out of a vape?
Aerosol: Tiny chemical particles (like in a spray can)
A person inhales a vape, it heats up the liquids with the battery-powered heating device, which vaporizes the liquid in the cartridge.
Vape aerosols have carcinogens and toxic chemicals, as well as toxic metal nanoparticles from the device itself.
human lungs were not designed to filter an ongoing intake of oil droplets.
500
This prescriptions of block pain receptors and are very addictive.
Opioids. Prescriptions from doctors are legal. Heroin and carfentanyl are not.
500
This neurotransmitter is a major part of the brain's "reward system" that many drugs mimic.
Dopamine