Vocabulary
When someone can no longer control their drug use.
What is addiction?
The highly addictive drug that is found in tobacco products.
What is nicotine?
Alter your feeling and behavior.
What are drugs?
Helping an addict avoid the negative consequences of their behavior.
What is enabling?
Causes relaxation.
Symptoms when a dependant stops using drugs.
What are withdrawals?
Any chemical or agent that causes cancer.
What is a carcinogen?
The active chemical in marijuana.
What is THC?
Stays in your system for up to 45 days.
What is marijuana?
Using a drug for something that is unsafe.
What is drug abuse?
Your brain, mouth, heart, skin, immune system, and lungs.
What parts of the body are affected by tobacco?
45% of overdoses come from this.
What are pills?
Drinking more than 5 drinks in one sitting.
What is binge drinking?
More severe effects than marijuana including hypertension, hallucinations, and psychosis.
Taking too much of a drug.
What is an overdose?
Coughing, raw gums, irritation of lungs, stained teeth, and smelly breath/clothes.
What are the short term effects of tobacco?
LSD and shrooms are this type of drug.
What is a psychedelic or hallucinogen?
1. Problem Drinking
2. Tolerance
3. Dependance
4. Alcoholism
What are the stages of alcoholism?
86% of all heroin users claimed that they used this.
What are prescribed drugs?
A drug that increases someone's energy.
What is a stimulant?
The age when you can buy tobacco in California.
Causes the most amount of overdoses.
What are painkillers/prescription drugs?
Age, social environment, genetics, and addictive personality.
What are risk factors?
Never leaves your system.
What is LSD?