Medications
Drugs and medicines used to treat symptoms of an illness or to cure, manage, or prevent a disease.
What are Medications
Substances that are against the law to use because they can be harmful to a person's health.
What are Illegal Drugs
Occurence when a person takes a drug again after deciding to stop.
What is Relapse
Medications and other substances that change the way the body or brain functions.
What are Drugs
Taking too much of a medication; often causes dangerous, life-threatening consequences.
What is Overdose
Medications that can treat health conditions to improve a person's health and enhance wellness.
What are Legal Drugs
Drug that usually comes in the form of white powder made from the leaves of the coca plant.
What is Cocaine
Message that is shown in the media to support public health
What is Public Service Announcement (PSA)
What is Marijuana
Drug similar to painkillers that has dangerous side effects and is very addictive.
What is heroin
Medicines that people can only purchase with a doctor's written order for the treatment of a specific illness or condition.
What are Prescription Medications
Drugs that alter the way people view, think and feel about things.
What are Hallucinogens
Treatment for drug addiction that may involve detoxification, medications, or time spent in a rehabilitation facility.
What is Rehabilitation Program
Continued use of a drug despite negative or harmful outcomes
What is Drug Abuse
Taking medication in a way that does not follow the medication's instructions; often unintentional.
What is Medication Misuse
Intentionally taking a drug in a way other than its intended use.
What is Medication Abuse
Several different types of drugs that young people may abuse at parties, bars and concerts.
What are Club Drugs
Provides drug education or counseling without requiring a hospital stay.
What is Outpatient Treatment Program
Chemicals that people breathe in to experience some type of high.
What are Inhalants
Stimulant that speeds up brain functions.
What are Methamphetamines
Medicines people can purchase without a doctor's written order to treat the symptoms of many minor health conditions.
What are Over The Counter Medications (OTC)
Complete dependence on a drug.
What is Drug Addiction
Plan that teaches people skills for dealing with peer pressure and for handling stressful life events without relying on drugs.
What is Skills-Training Program
Unpleasant and unwanted symptoms that occur from taking a medication.
What are Side Effects
Alcohol- and drug-free living environments that reduce some of the temptation and pressure people may feel to use alcohol and drugs.
What are Sober Living Communities