TEST YOUR DRUG
KNOWLEDGE
1 The effects of smoking pot can last for two days.
True or false?
2.Chocolate and
marijuana stimulate the same receptors in the brain.
How much chocolate
would you have to eat to get the same effect as on joint?
3. which cup of coffee
has more caffeine – the one brewed in the Office coffeemaker from grocery –
bought beans or the expensive cup from the new gourmet coffee bar ?
4 Ecstasy was first
popilarized by California psychotherapists who tried to us efor empathy
training’in marriage counseling . True or false ?
5. What popular
recreational drug was originally
developed as a treatment for asthma ?
6. What popular
nightclub drug is actually an animal tranquilizer – and the difference between
a recreational dosage of it and an overdose is sangerously small?
7. what are the most dangerous drugs and also the
ones most often used by children under age fourteen?
8. Which drug prescibed
each year to millions of americans impairs memory?
9 Put these drugs in
the order of addiciveness marijuana, nicotine, heroin.
10. Tonight you are at
a club sipping on a soft drink, or still on your first beer, when suddenly you
begin to feel very drunk and uncoordinated.
What might have
happened.?
11. What was the drug
misinformation promulgated by the movie pulp fiction?
12. What was the drug
effect corectly poertrayed by the movie train – spotting ?
13. Which drug carries
a greater danger of fatal overdose – alcohol LSD?
14. Right or wrong:
alcohol before bed makes you sleep better.
15. Are the herbal
remedies sold in health- food stores accually drugs?
16. Whp do people
inject a drug instead of just taking a pill?
17. What the most
popular illegal drug in America now ?
18. if a child or an
animal eats a cigarette, will it cause harm ?
19. does marijuana alcohol kill brain celles ?
20. Does alcohol kill
brain cells ?
21. İsn’t it safe to
drink a glass or two of wine with your dinner when you’re pregnant ?
22. İs caffeine
addicvite ?
23. Are crack babies
doomed to mental retardion and behavioral
problems ?
24. what drug, popular
on the club scene and among high school student, causes definitive brain damage
in rodents and monkeys?
ANSWERS
1. True THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, is
extremely fat – soluble amd can still enter the bloodstream from the fatty
tissues and have effects on the brain for up to two days after being smoked.
Its by products can turn up in the blood
many months after the last use if the smoker suddenly loses a lot of weight.
2. About twenty five punds
3. The Office cup. The african
robusta beans found in grocery stores
can contain up to twice as much caffeine as the more expensive arabica beans
found is specialty coffee shops. Plus you can add as much caffee as you want.
4. True
5. Amphetamine, which was originally
synthesized as a derivative of ephedrine the active ingerendt of the chinese
herbal drug mahuang.
6. Katemine, otherwise known as special
k ( not the creal)
7. Chemical solvents such as toluene,
benzene, propane and those found in glue and paint. More than 12 percent of
eighth have used such inhalants.
8. Valium and other drugs of its class.
9. Nicotine, heroin, marijuana (acually)
there is little evidence that marijuana is addictive.
10. Someone probably slipped a sedative
into your drink, like a roofie ( rohypnol) or GBH ( gamma- hydroxybutyrate),
also known as easy lay . These drugs can be fatal, so seeking medical attention
is wise.
11. The movie shows a heroin overdose
being treated by an injection of adrenaline into the heart, which is useless
and dangerous. The opiate-blocking drug naloxe reverses heroin overdose after
injection by more conventional routes.
12. The main character in the movie
overcome with diarrhea after coming down off heroin. Because heroin causes
constipation, once it’s eliminated from the body just the opposite effect kicks
in.
13. Alcohol. Many deaths each year caused
by alcohol overdose. There is little danger of LSD overdose unless it is
combined with or contaminated by other drugs.
14. Wrong. Achocol might make you sleepy at first, but its by-products
can cause sleeplessness, so after a night of drinking you might fall asleeo
quickly but wake up in the middle of the night feeling agitated.
15. Anything you take with the intention of
changing how your body acts is a drug. Any drug that comes from a plant is
herbal. This includes nicotine, ephedrine and cocaine. Herbal remedies are
complely unregulated yje amount and purity of what you buy is unkown.
16. For the speed with which the drug
gets into the bloodstream and into the brain. The faster it gets to the brain,
the better the rush this faster delivery also means a greater chance of
overdose because the amount of drug can reach fatal levels before the user can
do anything about it.
17. Marijuana is used by far more people
than any other illegal drug:77 percent of all illegal drug users use marijuana,
and almost 5 percent of the population used marijuana in the last month.
18. Yes. There is enough nicotine in a
cigarette to make a small child or animal very sick, or even to kill one.
19. Probably not, but is does interfere
with learning and memory .
20. It is unlikely that a single drink
kills brain cells, but long term chronic drinking can cause permanent memory
loss and definite brain damage.
21. No. Studies have shown that even very
moderate drinking during pregnancy can permanently hinder a child’s ability to
learn and to concentrate.
22. Not really. People who stop drinking coffee
may experience mild withdrawal that includes drowsiness, headacher, and
lethargy but people very raely engage in the compulsive, repetitive pattern of
drinking coffee that typifies use of addictive substances. Addiction is not
defined simply by the presence of withdrawal.
23. Not necessarily. In fact, the the
most common problems that crack babies experience are the same as those
experienced by children of women who smoke cigarettes: low brith weight and the
associated health risks and subtle developmental delays in childhood. Cocaine
can cause very severe problems, including prematüre separation of the placenta
from the uterus, prematüre birth and intrauterine stroke, but these are rare.
24. Ecstasy ( MDMA) studies Show dramatic
damage to nerves concanting the neurotransmitter serotonin that is irreversible
at doses approrimating those consumed by humans.
