Drugs as Medicines
The name for a drug that you can buy at your local pharmacy, without the need for a doctors prescription.
What is Over The Counter Medication (or OTC)
The condition in which more of a drug is needed to be used to produce the same effect that was felt when the drug was first taken
What is Drug Tolerance
What is the chemical name for alcohol
What is alcohol
The term for a person who chooses not to drink alcohol in a social setting so that they can safely drive themselves and others
What is a designated driver
Mixing cold medicine with this other drug can cause drowsiness and fatigue.
What are antihistamines
The uncomfortable physical and psychological symptoms produced when a physically dependent drug user stops using drugs
What is withdrawal
What is 0.02
Name one of the few reasons that we discussed why someone may take prescription depressants (safely)
What is treating: anxiety, muscle spasms or sleeplessness
The position to put someone in when they are displaying signs of alcohol poisoning, after you have called 911.
State the term that describes a drug that changes how a person perceives, thinks or feels.
What is a psychoactive drug
When a person can no longer function without taking a drug
What is physical dependence
The term for when someone dangerously consumes large amounts of alcohol in a short period of time, often leading to serious health effects.
What is Binge Drinking
Long term use of depressants can lead to this
What is physical dependency or addiction
A student ran organization that works to educate people about the dangers of alcohol
What is SADD (Students Against Destructive Drinking)
What is inactive ingredients
Identify the FOUR stages in the path to addictions
What is 1) drug use 2) tolerance 3) dependence 4) addiction
A disease that replaces healthy liver tissue with scar tissue, and can be the result of alcohol abuse.
What is cirrhosis
Name one of the 3 classes of prescription depressants that we discussed in class
What are 1) sedatives 2) benzodiazepines 3) barbiturates
The law that protects an individual from legal consequences, when they call emergency services to help a friend who may have alcohol poisoning.
What is the Good Samaritan Law
These drugs are not medicines and change the way the brain works in ways that are not health
What are Drugs of Abuse
This is how drugs can effect your emotions
What is interfering with the balance of neurotransmitters
What is alcohol abuse
Depressant drugs act on this system in your body to depress and slow bodily function
What is the central nervous system
The acronym CUPS is used to identify signs of alcohol poisoning -- what does each letter stand for
C - cold and clammy skin
U - unconscious
P - puking (especially when unconscious)
S - slowed or irregular breathing