Drugs

Question 1

What are some of the affects drugs can have on the body? Give atleast 4.

Answer 1

1. Some drugs can induce psychosis.
2. Taking drugs affects our body systems
3. Very addictive
4. After using drugs you become depressed and need more (basically psycological ver. of very addictive).
5. Weakens the immune system.
6. Can cause heart attacks.
7. Nausea / vomiting.

Question 2

What are the three types of drugs?

Answer 2

1. Stimulants
2. Depressants.
3. Hallucinogens.

Question 3

What are stimulants? Give 3 examples of stimulants.

Answer 3

Stimulants energize those who take them, meaning higher activity. Examples include caffine, ecstasy and nicotine.

Question 4

What are depressants? Give 3 examples of depressants.

Answer 4

Depressants slow messages traveling to the brain, creating a more relaxed mindset. Examples include Alcohol, Cannibis and petrols .

Question 5

What are hallucinogens? Give 3 examples of hallucinogens.

Answer 5

Hallucinogens make you hallucinate upon taking drugs. Examples include LSD, Magic mushrooms and Mescaline.

Question 6

Can medicine be harmful to the body?

Answer 6

Medicine can harm the body in high doses. An example of medicine that can harm the body is Vicodin.

Question 7

What happens when you consume too much alcohol. How does this happen?

Answer 7

Upon excessive consumption of alcohol, you get drunk. This is caused by the alcohol affecting the frontal lobe. Which determines what is right and what is wrong.

Question 8

Which gender is most likely to consume alcohol?

Answer 8

Male.

Question 9

How can being drunk threaten someone’s life?

Answer 9

They can make silly decisions like go swimming whilst drunk, which will most likely mean they will drown. One of the more common threats is driving a car whilst drunk. Meaning they will crash. After consuming alcohol people loose their inhibitions and can even think they are invincible

Question 10

What is binge drinking?

Answer 10

Binge drinking is drinking over the amount of alcohol a sobre man would have. Most commonly, binge drinking is after having 4 bottles of alcohol.

Question 11

What encourages binge drinking? Give 3 reasons.-

Answer 11

• Addiction
• Peer pressure
• Sponsorships and marketing

Question 12

What usually happens when you’re drunk?

Answer 12

Usually drunk people are unaware of what they are doing like shouting and being easily angered. Some people can also have an unwanted pregnancy/unwanted sex when drunk.

Question 13

When did people begin to realise how dangerous smoking was?

Answer 13

The damage cigarettes does was discovered in the year 1973 - where health hazards were put on cigarette boxes.

Question 14

What were some precautions against smoking? Give atm least 3 answers.

Answer 14

• Warnings on cigarette boxes.
• Banning of cigarette advertisements in magazines, radio and the newspaper/
• Banning smoking in bars and clubs.
• Smoking ban for people below 16.
• Scare tactic advertisements on television.

Question 15

What are some advertising laws for alcohol? Give at least 3 answers.

Answer 15

• Not allowed to encourage excessive usage of alcohol.
• Not allowed to encourage underage drinking.
• Not allowed to promote offensive behaviour.
• Must only depict the right consumption of alcohol.
• Not allowed to depict alcohol as ruining an atmosphere.

Question 16

What is the main demographic of beer advertisements? List some depictions of the demographic.

Answer 16

Alcohol advertisements are strongly directed towards male consumers. Some depictions of alcohol consumers include teenagers who like partying, classy adults of overly-expensive beer but is most predominantly fat middle-aged men.

Question 17

How do alcohol companies influence the consumption of alcohol? Give at least 3 answers.

Answer 17

• Showing that everyone else is having the drink.
• Some depict alcohol as a classy drink.
• Consistency of alcohol in movies and television.
• Only shows the pros of drinking.
• Some mottos use emotive language to draw consumers in.

Question 18

What is Cocaine and what does it do?

Answer 18

Cocaine is a stimulant, meaning that it stimulates irrational emotions such as feeling happy and more aware.
Some other examples include feeling hungry, dry mouth and an increased sex drive.

Question 19

What is Heroin and what does it do?

Answer 19

Heroine is a stimulant, meaning that it stimulates the body and triggers emotions such as feeling happy and more aware.
Heroine also increases sex drive, makes your skin flush and your mouth feel dry.

Question 20

What is GHB and what does it do?

Answer 20

GHB is a depressant, meaning it slows messages heading to the brain.

Question 21

What is Cannabis and what does it do?

Answer 21

Cannabis is a depressant, which slows down messages travelling to the brain and makes you relax.

Question 22

What are some of the common long term effects of drugs? Give at least 6 examples.

Answer 22

The common side effects of drugs include:

• Depression.
• Addiction.
• Difficulty sleeping.
• Memory loss.
• Lower fertility rate.
• Personality differences.
• Irritability.
• Paranoia.
• Headaches.
• Nausea.
• Weight gain.
• Social problems.

Question 23

What are some reasons why people take drugs? Give 4 answers.

Answer 23

• Stress.
• Peer pressure.
• Depression.
• Addiction.

Question 24

What’s wrong with binge drinking? Give at least 3 reasons.

Answer 24

• Destroys liver.
• Once you start, you can’t stop.
• Can do unimaginable things when drunk, even life threatening.
• Liver has a slow process of removing alcohol (2 drinks per hour)
• Aggresion and irritability whilst drunk.

Question 25

What are supervised injection facilities? How do they help?

Answer 25

Supervised injection facilities are facilities that provide safe environments for drug addicted patients to take their drug of choice. Supervised injection facilities ensure that the addict is safe and does not overdose and that drug paraphenalia is disposed of safely and not posing a threat to the public. They also educate addicts about drug detox and other options to start thinking about the benefits of quitting.