The chemical in tobacco that keeps you smoking.
What is Nicotine?
Consequence of drinking large amounts of alcohol in a short period of time.
What is Alcohol Poisoning?
Steroidal androgens that include natural androgens like testosterone as well as synthetic androgens that are structurally related and have similar effects to testosterone.
What is Anabolic Steroids?
Give (someone or something) the authority or means to do something.
What is Enabling?
Generally meant to describe the emotional and mental processes that are associated with the development of addiction.
Appears as thick, white patches on the inside surfaces of your mouth. It has a number of possible causes, including repeated injury or irritation.
What is Leukoplakia?
Fetal alcohol syndrome is a condition in a child that results from alcohol exposure during the mother's pregnancy.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
A class of drugs that speed up messages traveling between the brain and body.
What is a Stimulant?
Green, brown, or gray mix of dried, crumbled parts from the marijuana plant.
What is Cannabis?
The consumption of an excessive amount of alcohol in a short period of time.
What is binge drinking?
Odorless, colorless gas formed by the incomplete combustion of fuels. When people are exposed to CO gas, the CO molecules will displace the oxygen in their bodies and lead to poisoning.
What is Carbon Monoxide?
A chronic disease characterized by uncontrolled drinking and preoccupation with alcohol.
What is Alcoholism?
A substance used to treat pain or cause sleep.
What is Opiates?
A class of psychoactive substances that produce changes in perception, mood and cognitive processes.
What are psychedelics?
Overindulgence in or dependence on an addictive substance, especially alcohol or drugs.
What is substance abuse?
A medicinal preparation for inhaling.
What is inhalant?
A person with this condition can no longer control their consumption of alcoholic beverages.
What is an Alcoholic?
Hallucinogens are a large class of psychoactive drugs that can produce altered states of consciousness characterized by major alterations in thought, mood, and perception, among other changes.
What is a Hallucinogen?
Drug made from morphine, a natural substance taken from the seed pod of the various opium poppy plants.
What is heroin?
An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.
What is an overdose?
An electronic cigarette is an electronic device that simulates tobacco smoking.
What is vaping?
Depressants are medicines that include sedatives, tranquilizers, and hypnotics. These drugs can slow brain activity, making them useful for treating anxiety, panic, acute stress reactions, and sleep disorders.
What is a Depressant?
Stimulant that is mainly used as a recreational drug and less commonly as a second-line treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obesity.
What are Methamphetamines?
Powerfully addictive stimulant drug made from the leaves of the coca plant native to South America.
What is cocaine?
The state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else.
What is dependence?