Tobacco
What are the 3 chemicals present in tobacco?
Nicotine
Carbon Monoxide
Tar
What is a substance that changes the structure or function of the body or mind.
Drug
What is a need for increasing amounts of a substance to achieve the same effect.
Tolerance
What are drugs that are made and used purely for their effects.
Illegal Drugs
What is the use of any drug in a way that is unhealthy
or illegal?
Drug Abuse
What is a disease that occurs when the tiny air sacs in the lungs lose their elasticity, or ability to stretch.
Emphysema
What is a measure of the amount
of alcohol present in a person’s blood?
BAC (Blood Alcohol Content)
What is a disease in which a person has a physical and mental need for alcohol.
Alcoholism
What are substances whose fumes or vapors are inhaled, or breathed in.
Inhalants
What is taking a fatal amount of a drug?
Overdose
What is the body’s physical or mental need for a drug or other substance.
Addiction
What is the legal limit (BAC)
0.08%
Alcoholism can be __________, but not _________.
Treated, cured
What are drugs that speed up the
body’s functions. EX. Cocaine
Stimulants
What is a series of physical and mental symptoms that occur when a person stops using an addictive substance.
Withdrawl
What does tobacco put your lungs at risk for?
Lung cancer, breathing problems
Consuming alcohol regularly over a long period of time puts a strain on the liver. Heavy drinkers are particularly at risk of developing _______.This is destruction and scarring of the liver tissue.
Cirrhosis
What is the name of the support group for individuals suffering from alcoholism?
AA-alcoholics anonymous
What is a popular narcotic that is derived from the poppy plant and injected?
Heroin
What is the process in which a person relearns how to live without the abused drug.
Drug Rehabilitation
What is a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of tobacco products and the smoke exhaled by smokers.
Second hand smoke
What is a factor that can influence how alcohol effects an individual?
Body weight, amt. consumed, rate of consumption, food eaten, other drugs mixed
What is a group of permanent physical and mental problems caused by alcohol use during pregnancy.
FAS- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Marijuana
What is using illegal or harmful drugs, including any use of alcohol, while under the legal drinking age.
Substance Abuse