Group Responsible for ensuring all drugs are safe and effective.
What is FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
100
Drugs that distort moods, thoughts, and senses.
What are Hallucinogens?
100
Name 4 different ways medicine can enter the body
What is absorption, inhalation, ingestion, and injection.
100
physical or psychological need for a drug
What is addiction
100
Weed
What is Marijuana
200
Medicines that reduce or kill harmful bacteria in the body.
What are antibiotics
200
Most common depressant.
What is alcohol.
200
Name 3 club drugs discussed in class.
What is GHB, Rohypnol, Ketamine, and/or Ecstasy.
200
Any effect of a medicine other than the one intended.
What is side effect.
200
Blow
What is Cocaine
300
A condition in which a persons body becomes used to the effect of a medicine and needs greater and greater amounts of it in order for it to be effective.
What is tolerance.
300
An addiction in which the mind sends the body a message that it needs more of a drug
What is psychological dependence.
300
Name 3 main reasons people take medicines
What is to prevent disease, treat illness, and pain relief.
300
Specific drugs that are obtainable only by prescription and are used to relieve pain.
What are narcotics.
300
X
What is Ecstasy
400
Medicines safe enough to be taken without a written order from a physician.
What are Over-The-Counter Medicines.
400
Main active chemical in marijuana
What is THC
400
Name three places a person can go to get treated for drug addiction
What are detox units, inpatient treatment centers, outpatient treatment centers.
400
The physical and psychological symptoms that occur when someone stops using an addictive substances.
What is withdrawal.
400
Roofies
What is Rohypnol
500
The Control Group in a Clinical Trial is given this.
What is Placebo
500
Drug Heroin is made from.
What is morphine.
500
Besides Alcohol, name 3 depressants discussed in class.
What are barbiturates, tranquilizers, and hypnotics.
500
The physical process of freeing the body of an addictive substance.