Alcohol
Define Substance abuse
Overindulgence in or dependence on an addictive substance, especially alcohol or drugs.
Define Drug Abuse
Occurs when a person misuses a legal one.
Marijuana is made from what plant?
Hemp Plant
5 side effects of smoking
heart disease
stroke
cancer
death
trouble breathing
What are narcotics?
are depressants that induce sleep or decrease feeling.
What are the two ways alcohol is created?
Distillation and Fermentation
Are drugs that are meant to relieve pain, cure diseases, or prevent other illnesses. Any legal drugs can be dangerous if a person doesn’t use it correctly.
Medicine
PCP is known as what?
Angel Dust
How many chemicals are in one puff of smoke?
5,000
Examples of depressants?
Sedatives, tranquilizers, and barbiturates
Define Cirrhosis
With to much drinking, a chronic disease of liver occurs. The fibrous tissue invades and replaces normal tissues in the vital organ, disrupting digestion and detoxification.
Tell me difference between prescription and non-prescription drugs
Doctors prescription or note
What is the chemical in weed that makes you high?
THC (tetrahydrocannabinol)
Define mainstream smoking and what are the three types?
Inhaled and exhaled by smoker
Mainstream
side stream
environmental stream
Heroin is made up from the same sources as
Morphine
What is Alcoholism?
A illness characterized by habitual, compulsive, long-term, heavy-drinking.
5 Side effects from prescription drugs
Dizziness
Nausea
Headache
Upset stomach
Rash
Diarrhea
Hives
Loss of balance
Three examples of inhalants?
Paint thinner
sharpie
paint
nail polish
Is a colorless, oily, water-soluble, highly toxic, liquid alkaloid and is highly addictive
nicotine
Three things depressants do
They cause the heart to beat more slowly, your blood pressure to drop, your breathing rate to decrease.
Two things determine a person’s alcohol dependent and that is
tolerance level and withdrawal
Who invented penicillin and what year was it?
Alex Fleming and 1928
LSD and PCP are known as what types of drugs?
Hallucinogens
Tobacco is derived from what plant and what family of plant?
Nicotiana and nightshade
Narcotic Examples
Morphine
codeine
opioids