Defintions
Definitions #2
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100
A chronic disease characterized by uncontrolled drinking and a preoccupation with alcohol
What is Alcoholism
100
A person who drinks alcohol mainly on social occasions and only in moderate quantities.
What is a social drinker
100
Tobacco use accounts for 90% of what type of Cancer?
What is lung cancer
100
In the state of New Jersey, you must be of what age to purchase a tobacco product?
What is 19 years old
100
A colorless volatile flammable liquid which is produced by the natural fermentation of sugars; alcohol.
What is ethanol
200
A substances that gives way to a harder drug.
What is a gateway drug
200
The inability to stop using a drug including stages of tolerance and withdrawal is called?
What is addiction
200
Driving under the influence accounts for what percentage of driving related deaths in US
What is about 30%
200
If you are under 21, the legal blood alcohol concentration to drive in New Jersey is?
What is above .01 percent BAC
200
What organ is the most sensitive to alcohol, showing signs of impairment in just 90 seconds?
What is the brain
300
When the body adapts to a drug, requiring more of it to achieve a certain effect and showing actual symptoms if drug use is stopped is?
What is dependence
300
The consumption of an excessive amount of alcohol in a short period of time.
What is binge drinking
300
Alcoholism accounts for 1 in every 3 of what medical procedure?
What are liver transplants
300
Alcohol with a proof of 170 has an alcohol content of?
What is 85%.
300
1. Heredity 2. Environment 3. Stress 4. Advertising
What are reasons or factors in why people develop alcohlism or abuse alcohol.
400
A substance that alters brain function, perception, mood, consciousness and behavior
What is a Psychoactive drug
400
A tobacco pipe with a long, flexible tube that draws the smoke through water contained in a bowl.
What is a hookah.
400
What percentage of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems
What is about 10%.
400
The legal Blood Alcohol Concentration to drive for a person OVER 21?
What is .08%
400
Studies show that alcoholics who have relapsed give ______________ as the #1 reason for their relapse.
What is inability to handle stress
500
A degenerative condition affecting the central part of the retina and resulting in distortion or loss of central vision.
What is Macular Degeneration.
500
Drugs such as alcohol, Xanax, marijuana, and Oxycodone are examples of.
What are depressent drugs
500
As smoking has decreased in US so has the rate of __________________.
What is Heart Disease.
500
New Jersey is one of only two states that charges alcohol related driving offenses as a ______________________ instead of a criminal offense.
What is a vehicle violation
500
A 1-hour-long hookah session involves _____________ times the volume of smoke inhaled from 1 one cigarette
What is 100-200 times
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