Vocabulary
A chemical substance, that when administered to a living organism, causes a biological reaction.
What is a drug?
A drug category used to decrease pain and induce sleep, they are extremely addictive.
What are narcotics or opiates?
Use of this drug could lead to chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
Aerosols
Ecstasy
What is a hallucinogen?
Regular and/or compulsive use of drugs in a habitual or regular way.
A drug category used to speed up the body's systems.
This drug weakens the immune system, raises the risk of lung cancer and can have reproductive effects.
What is Marijuana?
Alcohol
What is a depressant?
Cocaine
What is a stimulant?
A serious danger of drug abuse that ends in death.
What is an overdose?
A drug category used to alter an individual's thinking, perceptions and reality.
What are hallucinogens?
These drugs make you extremely alert and cause heart rate to soar to dangerous levels.
What are stimulants?
Morphine
What is a narcotic/opiate?
Marijuana
What is a depressant?
Physical need for a drug in order to maintain normal body and mind function. Often pain is associated with the absence of the drug.
What is drug dependence?
A drug category used to slow down the body's systems.
What are depressants?
These drugs cause feelings of euphoria and alter perceptions of vision, hearing, smell, and touch.
What are hallucinogens?
Meth
What is a stimulant?
Oxycodone
What is a narcotic/opiate?
Compulsive and continued engagement of drug use despite negative life, personal and/or health consequences.
What is drug addiction?
A drug category that suppresses the central nervous system and are often non-medical substances.
What are inhalants?
These drugs cause slow breathing rates and lower blood pressure, sometimes leading to coma or death.
What are depressants?
PCP
What is a hallucinogen?
Solvents
What is an inhalant?