Definitions
Miscellaneous
Drug Information
100
The nontherapeutic use of psychoactive agents and the illicit use of a prescribed drug on a regular, binge, or episodic basis
What is substance (drug and chemical) abuse?
100
41%
What is the percentage of nurses that spend almost all their time responding to alcohol and other drug issues?
100
opium, morphine, codeine
What are some different types of narcotics?
200
Taking a legitimate drug prescription in a nonprescribed manner, obtaining it in an unlawful way or without legitimate medical reason, or giving prescribed medications to a friend
What is substance misuse?
200
16 million
In 2009, how many Americans age 12 and older had taken a prescription pain reliever, tranquilizer, stimulate, or sedative for nonmedical purposes at least once in the year prior to being surveyed?
200
Medicine that doesn't require a prescription such as cough medicine
What drugs fall into schedule CV?
300
a broad, generic diagnostic term used by the medical community to describe a predictable, composite set of physical symptoms and behavioral patterns associated with the voluntary ingestion of a psychoactive substance
What is a substance use disorder?
300
Painkillers, depressants, stimulants, and steroids
What are the types of prescription drugs misused?
300
1. Stop cold turkey 2. Tapering off 3. Behavior modification 4. Acupuncture 5. Hypnosis 6. Nicotine gum 7. Nicotine patch 8. Self-help groups 9. Stop smoiking program
What are 3 ways to stop smoking?
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