Vocabulary
A condition in which the body doesn't get the nutrients it needs to grow and function properly.
Malnutrition
A progressive, chronic disease involving a mental and physical need for alcohol.
Alcoholism
Ground tobacco that is chewed or inhaled through the nose.
Smokeless Tobacco
Partial or total loss of memory
Amnesia
When a drug is taken repeatedly and at increasingly high doses.
Binge
The ability of the body to respond quickly and appropriately to situations.
Reaction Time
A process in which your body needs more and more of a drug to get the same effect.
Tolerance
Advertising campaigns in which a product is promoted at a store's checkout counter.
Point-of-Sale-Promotions
A drug created in a lab.
Synthetic Drug
A thick, oily, dark liquid that forms when tobacco burns.
Tar
A gathering in which family and friends get the addicted family member to agree to seek help.
Intervention
Other ways of thinking or acting.
Alternatives
A poisonous, colorless, odorless gas.
Carbon Monoxide
A drug that is mixed with another drug to create a different effect.
Laced
A disease in which damaged cells grow out of control and destroy tissue.
Cancer
A return to the use of a drug after attempting to stop.
Relapse
The process of learning to live an alcohol-free life.
Recovery
Pressure you feel to go along with harmful behaviors or beliefs of others your age.
Negative Peer Pressure
A condition in which fats build up in the liver and cannot be broken down.
Cirrhosis
A cancer causing substance found in cigarettes.
Carcinogen
Persons who create an atmosphere in which the alcoholic can comfortable continue his/her unacceptable behavior.
Enablers
Products that assist a person in breaking the tobacco habit.
Nicotine Replacement Therapies
Smoke that is exhaled and smoke that comes from a lit cigarette.
Second Hand Smoke
The measure of the amount of alcohol in a person's blood.
BAC (Blood Alcohol Content)
A larger amount of a drug than a person's body can handle.
Overdose