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This refers to substances that alter the function of the body in some way.
What is a drug?
The most important component of the immune system (Chp6).
What are leukocytes?
The phenomenon in which a drug user requires more and more of a drug to achieve the same effects/results. (Common issue with pain management drugs like morphine).
What is tolerance?
A condition in which babies are born with brain damage and physical deformities because their mothers drank alcohol heavily during pregnancy.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)?
This legal drug is acknowledged as the cause of thousands of deaths due to lung cancer.
What is cigarette smoking?
a substance (such as a drug) that is used to cure or treat disease or alleviate some of its symptoms
What is medicine?
An anesthetic that enters the bloodstream and prevents feeling by the body as a whole (often causing unconsciousness).
What is general anesthetic?
A person who is addicted to alcohol. These people may be able to function, but not well or be completely unable to manage jobs, relationships, etc.
What is an alcoholic?
Liver inflammation disease caused by alcohol abuse.
What is hepatitis?
the meaning of the Latin prefix, "soma-"
what is body?
Nonprescription medications, considered by the FDA to have minimal side effects and not likely to be abused.
What are OTC (over the counter) drugs?
A medicine that blocks the action of a histamine by reducing inflammation and allergic reaction. Benadryl is an an example of one.
What is an antihistamine?
The syndrome of psychological and physical withdrawal symptoms that occurs when a heavy alcohol user abstains from alcohol.
What are delirium tremens (DTs)?
Liver cells are replaced by scar tissue is called.
What is cirrhosis of the liver?
this is the body's largest lymph organ?
what is spleen?
Chemical substances that stop the growth of bacteria; these are very commonly prescribed.
What are antibiotics?
Drugs that can affect the brain and mind are called?
What are psychoactive drugs?
This is a common analgesic (pain reliever) which was originally sourced from the bark of white willow trees.
What is aspirin?
organisms that cause disease are called this
What are pathogens?
a substance that stimulates the immune system, so it may develop immunity
what is a vaccine?
An anesthetic that causes numbness in a limited part of the body.
What is a local anesthetic?
A condition in which a drug user eventually becomes unable to function normally without the drug; this impact can affect their physical and/or their psychological health.
What is dependence?
A stimulant drug that is the main psychoactive ingredient in tobacco.
What is nicotine?
Drug that is derived from the hemp plant and known as a cannabinoid, this is the most commonly abused illegal (in most states) drug in the U.S. The harmful bi-product of the active ingredient of the plant takes months to get out of the brain.
What is marijuana?
an animal that transmits infections
what is a vector?