Prescription Drugs

1.   In 2012 what percent of overdose deaths in orange county involved prescription drugs, such as Vicodin, Oxycontin and Codeine? Answer: 57%

2.   What was the percent of overdose deaths in 1999?  Answer: 37%

3.   How many people in Orange County died from prescription drug overdoses in 2012? Answer: 188

4.   What 4 prescription drugs listed in the article are increasingly being used, and sold, by people seeking a high, often with deadly consequences?  Answer:  Oxycontin, Vicodin, Codeine, and Opana

5.    Who is the executive producer of the film “Behind the Orange Curtain”?  Answer: Natalie Costa

6.   Eventually, the high cost of prescription drugs has also pushed users to try other drugs  to match the high at a cheaper cost.  What street drug do they turn to?  Answer: heroin

7.   Do you know anyone addicted to drugs (prescribed or street drugs)?  Answer: no

8.   Type one statement (sentence) that describes your feeling about drugs.  Answer: People have the choice to do drugs, and if they choose to do so its none of my business.

More Thinking

1)   5

2)  Abe or Dan did it

Brain Grade

More brain busting

1 gallon-  Fill the 9 gallon bucket.  Pour 4 gallons into the 4 gallon bucket and pour it out.  You now have 5 gallons in the 9 gallon bucket.  Pour 4 gallons into the 4 gallon bucket and pour it out.  You now have 1 gallon in the 9 gallon bucket.

2 gallons-  

3 gallon- 

4 gallon- Fill the 4 gallon bucket.

5 gallon- See gallon 1 above.

6 gallon- 

7 gallon- 

8 gallon- Fill the 4 gallon bucket, pour the water in the 9 gallon bucket and fill the 4 gallon bucket again.

9 gallon- Fill the 9 gallon bucket.

10 gallon- Fill the 9 gallon bucket.  Pour 4 gallons into the 4 gallon bucket and pour it out.  You now have 5 gallons in the 9 gallon bucket.  Pour 4 gallons into the 4 gallon bucket and pour it out.  You now have 1 gallon in the 9 gallon bucket. Then pour the single gallon into the 4 gallon and fill the 9 gallon.

11 gallon- 

12 gallon- 

13 gallon- 

My Super Brain

1)    99 pennies
2)    take a fruit from the box labeled apples and oranges, the fruit you pull out will be the fruit that box                 belongs to
3)  
4)   Mary
5)   grab 6 pairs with both hands
6)   30
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