Types
They speed up the work of the nervous system.
What are stimulants?
Taking a medicine prescribed for someone else is an example of this.
What is drug misuse?
When a person thinks he or she needs a certain drug.
What is mental dependence?
Name three kinds of information found on an OTC label.
What are dosage, side effects, directions for use.
The min-altering chemical in marijuana.
What is THC?
A mild drug mound in some teas, coffee and soft drinks.
What is caffeine?
Tolerance for a drug can lead a person to take an _______________ of the drug.
What is overdose?
Using marijuana can lead to this cancer.
What is lung cancer?
Carbon Monoxide from tobacco smoke replaces this in the blood.
What is oxygen?
Length of time THC from one marijuana cigarette stays in the body.
What is one month?
You will find the name of a doctor, pharmacy and patient on this kind of label.
What is a prescription medicine label?
Amphetamines and cocaine
What are two strong stimulants?
Studies show use of marijuana decreases this during puberty.
What are hormones?
This can cause gum disease and cancer of the mouth.
What is smokeless tobacco.
No matter how medicine enters the body, it is carried to all parts of the body by this.
What is the blood?
This carries any medicine or drug that enters the body to all parts of the body.
What is blood?
Tranquilizers and barbiturates.
What are depressants?
These are long-term effects of abusing alcohol.
What are cirrhosis of the liver and ulcers?
This is the professional at the drug store who fills your prescription.
What is a pharmacist?
The more alcohol a person drinks the greater the concentration of alcohol in the blood stream.
What is blood level alcohol. (BAC)?
This is the best way to refuse drugs.
Say NO!
This can cause death by stopping the heartbeat and breathing.
What is Inhalants?
This is the best way to refuse drugs.
Say NO!
Clues that a person is a smoker.
Yellow teeth, clothes smell like cigarette smoke, bad breath, yellow fingers, furry tongue.
The three most damaging substances in cigarette smoke.
What are tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide.