Understanding Drugs and Medicines
A substance that causes a physical or psychological change
What is a drug?
The drug found in beer, wine, and liquor that causes intoxication.
What is alcohol?
The addictive drug found in all tobacco products.
What is nicotine?
The intentional improper or unsafe use of a drug.
What is drug abuse?
A drug that is used to cure, prevent, or treat illness/discomfort.
What is medicine?
The physical and mental changes produced by drinking alcohol.
What is intoxication?
Chemicals/agents that cause cancer
What are carcinogens?
What are some reasons that people would begin using drugs?
Non-medicinal drugs such as cocaine, nicotine, alcohol, and marijuana that changes the way the brain works in an unhealthy way.
What is an abusive drug?
What are the effects on the body/side effects of excessive alcohol use?
What is carbon monoxide?
Marijuana, inhalants, club drugs, and anabolic steroids.
What are some commonly abused illegal drugs?
Implanted pumps, inhalation, injection, transdermal patches, ingestion, and topical application.
What are the different ways in which drugs enter the body?
The natural limits that people put on their behavior.
What is inhibition?
Increase in heart rate and blood pressure, increase in breathing rate, increase in blood sugar levels, and stimulates vomit reflex.
What are some short term effects of tobacco use?
Slowed thinking, difficulty paying attention, distorted sense of time and distance, increased appetite, etc...
What are some effects of marijuana usage?
OTC vs Prescription
What are the different ways to obtain medicinal drugs?
What is binge drinking?
Addiction, bronchitis and emphysema, heart and artery disease, cancer, and immune system suppression.
What are some long term effects of tobacco use?
Stimulants, depressants, opiates, and hallucinogens.
What are other drugs that are abused?