Drug Categories 1
This is the stimulant found in tobacco.
What is nicotine?
These are synthetic drugs that are like the male hormone testosterone.
What are steroids?
These are the first 2 stages of the addiction cycle.
What are first use and continued use?
This is proper use of a legal drug.
What is drug use?
This is a chemical substance, other than food, that changes the structure or function of the body.
What is a drug?
These are drugs that slow down the brain's activity.
This is the category of drug alcohol is.
What is a depressant?
These are common symptoms of withdrawal.
What is not being able to sleep, irritability, changing moods, depression, anxiety, aches, pains, cravings, tiredness, hallucinations, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, sweating, shaking, paranoia, confusion, tremors, disorientation, or seizures?
These are the 3 gateway drugs.
What are alcohol, nicotine, and marijuana?
This is the BAC limit in Utah.
What is .05%?
These are 2 examples of stimulants.
These are drugs that speed up the brain's activity.
What are stimulants?
This is needing more of a drug to feel its effects.
What is tolerance?
This is inappropriate use of a legal drug.
What is drug misuse?
This is the difference between OTC and prescription drugs.
Over the counter medications can be purchased by anyone, prescription medications require a doctor’s written permission.
Category of depressant drugs that come from the opium poppy that are highly addictive painkillers.
What are narcotics?
This is what BAC stands for.
This is a condition involving unpleasant symptoms that occur after stopping or reducing intake of a drug.
What is withdrawal - dependence.
This is using a drug to feel its effects, typically to escape some kind of pain.
What is recreational use?
These are 4 examples of methods of taking drugs.
What are by mouth, inhaling, smoking, injecting, or applying to the skin ?
These are psychedelic drugs that alter your body's senses.
What are hallucinogens?
This category of drugs are industrial or household chemicals whose vapors produce a high.
What are inhalants?
These are the two components of stage 5, addiction.
What are obsession and compulsion?
This is drug usage that leads to dependence or addiction.
What is drug abuse?
This is the liver disease common in alcoholics.
What is cirrhosis?