Important Stuff
A disease in which a person is unable to stop using alcohol
What is alcoholism?
a drug that slows down the nervous system?
what is a depressant?
Experiencing the symptoms of alcohol consumption
What is intoxicated?
a drug that speeds up the nervous system
What is a stimulant?
medicine order from a doctor
what is a prescription?
a stimulant drug found in tobacco
what is nicotine?
unwanted effect of a medicine or drug
what is side effect?
Depressant drug found in beer, wine and liquor
What is alcohol?
using legal or illegal drugs for purposes other than mental or physical illness
what is drug abuse?
a person who does not have control over his or her drinking
What is an alcoholic?
a mild stimulant that is found in coffee, tea, colas and chocolate
what is caffeine?
drugs that affect brain activity, changing the way a person senses the world
What are hallucinogen?
a gas found in cigarette smoke that replaces some of the blood's oxygen when inhaled
What is carbon monoxide?
a condition where the liver cells die and the walls of the liver thicken
what is cirrhosis?
a sticky, gluelike substance found in cigarette smoke
what is tar?
occurs when there is damage to the walls of the air sacs of the lungs
what is emphysema?
a substance that acts on the body to change the way it works
what is a drug?
tobacco, such as chewing tobacco or snuff that is not smoked when it is used
What is smokeless tobacco?
an illness affecting both the mind and body that makes people unable to go without something, such as a drug
what is addiction?
drugs that enter your body with the air you breathe
What are inhalants?