Drug abuse
The intentional improper or unsafe use of a drug.
Overdose
The taking of too much of a drug, which causes sickness, loss of consciousness, permanent damage, or even death.
Marijuana
The dried flowers and leaves of the plant Cannabis sativa that are smoked or mixed in food and eaten for intoxicating effects.
Inhalant
A drug that is inhaled as a vapor.
Club (designer) drug
A drug made to closely resemble a common illegal drug in chemical structure and effect.
Anabolic steroid
A synthetic version of the male hormone testosterone that is used to promote muscle development.
Stimulant
A drug that temporarily increases a person's energy and alertness.
Depressant
A drug that causes relaxation and sleepiness
Opiates
A group of highly addictive drugs derived from the poppy plant that are used as pain relievers, anesthetics, and sedatives.
Hallucinogen
A drug that distorts perceptions, causing the user to see or hear things that are not real.
Neonatal abstinence syndrome
Drug withdrawal that occurs in newborn infants whose mothers were frequent drug users during pregnancy.
Recovering
The process of learning to live without drugs.
Intervention
Confronting a drug user about his or her drug abuse problem to stop him or her from using drugs.
Relapse
A return to using drugs while trying to recover from drug addiction.
List six ways illegal drug use can be dangerous.
It can cause permanent effects on the brain and body, you can become addicted, it can be one cause of suicide, or a accident to happen, if you share needles you can get HIV, you can accidentally do overdose, you may lose the ability to make wise decisions.
State five reasons a person might try illegal drugs.
Experiment, escape from depression, enjoy risk taking behaviors, thinking it may solve problems, peer pressure, see it on TV.
Identify the reason drug abuse is especially dangerous to teens.
Higher risk for addiction, extremely harsh on young brain.
Describe two ways illegal drug use conflicts with your values and goals.
Affect your thinking, your health, can lead to addiction
List three things all types of illegal drugs have in common.
Affect your thinking, your health, can lead to addiction
Summarize the effects of four commonly abused illegal drugs on the body.
can hurt liver, kidney, heart and brain
Describe the effects of marijuana on a person's behavior.
slowed thinking, cant pay attention, distorted sense of time and distance, giddiness, loss of short term memory, increased appitite, anxiety, panic attack.
Identify the reason abusing inhalants can be deadly after only one use.
Damage organs, kill brain cells, sudden death
Compare the dangerous effects of five types of club drugs.
violence and loss of memory
Summarize the dangerous effects of anabolic steroids.
liver damage, kidney failure heart disease heart attack
Describe the dangerous risks of using stimulants, depressants, opiates, and hallucinogens.
Death, coma, heart failure, memory loss,kidney damage.
Compare the dangers of two different types of stimulants.
Hyperactivity, loss of appitite
Summarize the dangerous effects of the depressants Rohypnol and dextromethorphan (DXM).
hallucinations, bizzare feelings
Describe the dangerous physical and social effects of addiction to opiates such as heroin.
panic attacks, vomiting, lose job, suffer health problems, crime, choke on vomit when passed out
Summarize the dangerous emotional effects that can result from hallucinogen abuse.
fear, anxiety, paranoia
Summarize how drug abuse can negatively affect a person's life.
by car accidents, death, violence, pregnancy, STD's
Identify the ways that drug abuse can affect a family.
withdrawals intimacy, breaking household rules, hangs with different friends
List four ways that drug abuse impacts society.
price of drugs, crimes, accidents
Describe the principles that describe effective drug abuse treatment.
recovering,intervention, group therapy
List five ways that you could refuse illegal drugs.
say no firmly, buy time, give reasons, state consequences, alternate activity, walk away