Vocabulary
Alcohol & Your Body
Medicines
Drugs
Miscellaneous
100
A substance that changes the structure of function of the body or mind.
What is a Drug?
100
Drinking alcohol can cause damage to the lining of the stomach and eventually can cause these sores.
What are ulcers?
100
______________ are drugs that are used to prevent diseases or other conditions
What are vaccines?
100
______ means using drugs in ways that are unhealthy or illegal. An example is taking cold medicine to help you sleep.
What is Drug Abuse?
100
These are substances whose fumes are inhaled to produce hallucinations. Most are common household products no meant to be taken into the body. They can kill brain cells, causing permanent brain damage or comma.
What are inhalants?
200
This is a substance that is produced by a chemical reaction in some foods. It is also a drug.
What is alcohol?
200
This is the physical and mental need for something (alcohol).
What is Addiction?
200
These medicines can only be sold with a written order from a doctor
What are prescription medicines?
200
A series of mental and physical symptoms that occur when a person stops using an addictive substance. These symptoms may include vomiting, hallucinations, and severe anxiety
What are withdrawals?
200
____________ are synthetic drugs based on a male hormone. Some athletes use these illegally to increase their body weight and strength. They should Never be used for this purpose. Users may become violent, aggressive and deeply depressed. They may also cause liver and brain cancer and heart attacks
What are anabolic steroids?
300
This disease is the physical and mental need for alcohol.
What is alcoholism?
300
An individual’s reaction to alcohol depends on several factors. Name 2 of them.
What is body weight? What is how much a person drinks? What is how fast a person drinks? What is use of other drugs?
300
These medicines are available without a written order from a doctor.
What are nonprescription (or over-the-counter) medicines?
300
_____ are drugs that speed up the body’s functions. They cause blood pressure to rise, the heart to beat faster, breathing rate to increase and the pupils of the eyes to dilate. What
What are stimulants?
300
This government agency reviews all medicines sold in the United States to make sure they are safe. It can often take several y ears to determine a medicine’s long term effects. They also decide whether a medicine must be sold with a prescription or over the counter.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
400
These are medicines that kill or stop the growth of certain germs. They can treat infections caused by bacteria, such as strep throat.
What are antibiotics?
400
This slows down with alcohol. You have trouble thinking, speaking and moving. You do things you normally wouldn't do.
What is the brain?
400
You may experience a reaction to some types of medicines. A ______ is any reaction to a medicine other than the one intended. What
What is a side effect?
400
These are illegal drugs that cause the user’s brain to distort images and to se and hear things that aren’t real.
What are hallucinogens?
400
A group of permanent physical and mental problems caused by a mother's use of alcohol while pregnant.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)?
500
All alcoholic beverages must carry a label warning about the dangers of ______.
What is Alcohol?
500
This is destruction and scarring of liver tissue and can lead to death.
What is cirrhosis?
500
_____ is a condition in which the body becomes used to the effects of a medicine and needs greater amounts to get the same effect.
What is tolerance?
500
This is the use of illegal or harmful drugs, including any use of alcohol while under the legal drinking age.
What is substance abuse?
500
Alcohol begins to affect the body soon after it is ingested. The blood vessels _________ and the heart rate ____________.
What are expand and increases?
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