Classification of Medicines
Medicines and the Body
Psychoactive Drugs
Illegal Drugs
Psychoactive Drugs cont.
100
What are drugs that are used to treat or prevent disease or other conditions?
What are medicines?
100
What is a reaction to a medicine other than the one intended?
What is a side effect?
100
Name the four main groups of psychoactive drugs.
What are stimulants, depressants, narcotics and hallucinogens?
100
_____________ are chemical substances that people of any age cannot make, buy, sell or use legally.
What are illegal drugs?
100
_______ is a highly addictive narcotic.
What is heroin?
200
_________ are used to stimulate the body's natural functions and can prevent diseases before they occur.
What are drugs?
200
______ is the body's reaction when use of a medicine it depends on stops.
What is a withdrawal?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What are drugs that alter moods, thoughts and sense perception?
What are hallucinogens?
200
What is the crime people commit by making/buying/selling drugs?
What is any form of illicit drug use?
200
Name the five types of stimulants.
What are caffeine, nicotine, cocaine (crack), amphetamines and meth?
300
What is a drug used to stimulate immunity?
What is a vaccine?
300
What happens when two medicines interact in a positive way?
What is additive interaction?
300
__________ are drugs that speed up the central nervous system.
What are stimulants?
300
______________ are chemicals that affect the central nervous system and alter activities in the brain.
What are psychoactive drugs?
300
___________ are specific drugs obtainable only by prescription and are used to relieve pain.
What are narcotics?
400
_______ is a type of medicine that ranges from aspirin to morphine to codeine.
What are analgesics?
400
When two or more medicines are used together to result in a greater effect than they would be taken alone.
What is a synergistic interaction?
400
___________are drugs that induce sleepiness.
What are barbiturates?
400
___________ is a plant whose leaves, buds and flowers are usually smoked for their intoxicating effects.
What is marijuana?
400
Name the three types of depressants, including the two types of one of the drugs.
What are barbiturates, tranquilizers and date rape drugs (rohypnol and G.H.B.).
500
The four types of medicines that fight pathogens are...
What are antibodies, antitoxins, antibiotics and antivirals?
500
_____________ _____________ is when one medicine is canceled out or weakened by another medicine taken.
What is an antagonistic interaction?
500
What is an intense feeling of well-being or elation?
What is euphoria?
500
Name the factors that influence decisions about drugs.
What are peer pressure, family pressure, role models, media and misinformation?
500
What are the three types of hallucinogens?
What are P.C.P., L.S.D. and Ketamine?
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