Categories of Drugs
This means BAC
What is Blood Alcohol Concentration?
Medicine that can be obtained only with a written order from a physician.
What is prescription medicine?
This is the thick, sticky substance formed by millions of tiny particles in cigarette smoke?
Tar
Tobacco smoke released into the environment by smokers, which other people nearby inhale
What is a Secondhand smoke?
The amount of drug taken at one time
What is a dose?
Devices that covert nicotine and flavored liquids into a vapor
What are Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS)?
Three short term affects of Alcohol
What is Blurred vision, slurred speech, mental confusion, slower reaction time, lowered reasoning ability, impaired coordination
Medicine that can be purchased without a prescription
What is Over-the-counter medicine or OTC?
When the body becomes use to a drug and needs larger and larger amounts to produce the same effects
What is Tolerance?
Tobacco products such as dip, chew, and snuff
What is Smokeless Tobacco
The legal BAC for operating a motor vehicle is
What is <0.08% (Less than 0.08 percent)?
the highly addictive chemical in marijuana that cause the "high" feeling
What is THC?
The continued need for the effects of a drug even though those effects harm the body, mind, and relationships is called what?
What is Addiction
Mixing these two types of depressants could lead to coma or death
Barbiturates and Tranquilizers
Odorless, colorless, poisonous gas released from tobacco smoke
What is Carbon Monoxide?
Risk factors such as Age, Social Environment, Family History, and Risk taking personality can lead to
What is Alcoholism?
Marijuana causes addictions, drug dependency and is also considered to be this, that leads to other drug usage
What is the "gateway drug"?
What is the first stage of the addiction process?
What is Experimentation?