Alcohol
This represents the percentage of alcohol to blood.
What is Blood Alcohol Content (BAC)?
This is the colorless, odorless, highly addictive drug found in tobacco.
What is Nicotine?
_____ is when the body becomes used to a drug and needs larger and larger amounts to produce the same effects?
What is Tolerance?
This is name of the gummy substance formed by millions of tiny particles in cigarette smoke?
What is Tar?
This is the legal drinking age in Mississippi.
What is 21 years old?
The legal limit of BAC in Mississippi for legal age drinkers.
What is a limit of .08%
This product of tobacco is considered to be stimulant.
What is nicotine?
This is an unwanted change in the body that is not related to the main purpose of a drug?
What is a Side Effect?
The continued need for the effects of a drug even though those effects harm the body, mind, and relationships is called what?
What is Drug Dependence?
It is against the law in all 50 states to sell cigarettes to anyone under this age.
What is 18 years old.
__________ is when an individual's blood alcohol level (the percentage of alcohol circulating in the bloodstream) rises to a danger point in which the individual loses consciousness and goes into a coma and in the worst cases, the drinker dies.
What is Alcohol poisoning?
The term for exhaled smoke and sidestream smoke otherwise known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) or passive smoke; a mixture of two forms of smoke from burning tobacco products.
What is Secondhand smoke?
1. Physical ___ ___ is when someone develops a tolerance for a drug or shows withdrawal symptoms without it 2. Psychological ___ ____ is a strong emotional desire to continue using a drug.
What are two types of drug dependence?
This substance interferes with judgement, coordination, and other basic functions by upsetting the brains balance of chemicals (called neurotransmitters).
What does alcohol interfere with?
This is the depressant drug found in some beverages that slows down the central nervous system and harms body organs?
What is Alcohol?
Alcohol enters your bloodstream within 5 to 10 minutes of being consumed. It passes from your stomach into your bloodstream and then travels throughout your entire body-affecting nearly every organ system in the body.
How long does it take for alcohol to enter the bloodstream?
This product also known as dip, chew, snuff, or spit and is put between the lip and gum and placed on the inside of the mouth.
What is Smokeless Tobacco?
The four ways in which drugs enter the body.
What is by mouth, by injection, by inhalation, and by absorption?
1. An OTC (over the counter drug) that people can buy without a physician's prescription 2. A prescription drug is medication that can only be obtained with a written order from a physician.
What is the difference between presciption drugs and OTC drugs?
This is the term used when someone uses an illegal drug or intentionally misuses a prescription or OTC drug?
What is Drug Abuse?
1.Lead to cancer of the mouth, esophagus, pharynx and larynx, liver, stomach, ovaries, breast, prostate, and small intestine. 2. Affects parts of the brain and nervous system that control breathing, heartbeat, and related body functions which causes many deaths. 3. Associated with cardiovascular disease, and neurological damage 4. Psychiatric problems such as depression, anxiety, and antisocial personality disorder
What are at least 3 long term affects of alcohol on the body and mind.
At least 3 of many smoking-related conditions and diseases include:
1.Cancer 2. Emphysema 3. Chronic Bornchitis 4. Asthma
These are at least 3 factors that determine the effects a drug might have on the mind and body.
What is : 1.The way the drug enters the body 2.The dose or amount of a drug taken at one time 3.The weight, age, and health status of the person 4.The emotional state of the person 5.Whether the person is taking more than one drug at the same time.
These are at least 5 pieces of information found on a label of an over the counter drug/medication.
What is: 1. Name of product 2. Type of medicine 3. Amount in package 4. Uses 5. Warnings 6. Expiration Dat 7. Manufacturer's information 8. Active and Inactive ingredients
Examples of these includes: 1. Take OTC drugs only with the permission of your parents or guardian 2. Take only the dosage shown on the label 3. Do not purchase if tamper-resistant seal is broken 4. Don't use drug after the expiration date 5. Don't engage in demanding activities if medicine causes drowsiness 6. Tell parent or guardian if you have any side effects 7. Check with physician or pharmacist if you are going to use more than one OTC drug at a time.
What are at least 3 guidelines for the safe use of OTC drugs?