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Drug Vocabulary
How Drugs Enter the Body
Addiction
OTC and Prescription Medicines
Tobacco
100
This is any substance that causes a change in a person's physical or psychological state
What is a Drug
100
This method involves a drug entering the body through the lungs.
What is Inhalation
100
This happens when it takes more of a drug to feel the same effect
What is Drug Tolerance
100
These can be bought without a prescription
What are Over The Counter (OTC) Medicines
100
This is the drug in all tobacco products that causes addiction
What is Nicotine
200
This is any drug that is used to cure, prevent, or treat illness or discomfort
What is a Medicine
200
This method may involve a syringe
What is Injection
200
This is a condition in which a person can no longer control his or her drug use
What is Addiction
200
This is made by a company other than the company who developed the original medicine
What is Generic Medicine
200
The sticky, black substance in tobacco smoke that coats the inside of the airways
What is Tar
300
These can happen when taking drugs and are different from the intended effect
What is a Side Effect
300
These are surgically placed into the body in order to pump a drug into a specific body part
What are Implanted Pumps
300
When a physically dependent drug user stops using drugs
What is Withdrawal
300
These medicines require you to read labels and "be your own doctor"
What are Over the Counter (OTC) Medicines
300
This is a respiratory disease in which air cannot move in and out of the lungs because they have lost their elasticity
What is Emphysema
400
This category of drugs affect the brain and can change how we perceive, think or feel
What is Psychoactive
400
This method involves absorption through the skin.
What is Topical Application
400
This is the state of emotionally or mentally needing a drug in order to function normally
What is Psychological Dependence
400
This is the chemical component that gives a medicine its action
What is the Active Ingredient
400
This smoke is inhaled by anyone around a person who is smoking
What is Secondhand Smoke
500
These can occur when more than one drug is used and the effect is increased or decreased
What are Drug Interactions
500
Drugs are absorbed like Topical Applications but placed in these small packages to attach to the skin.
What are Transdermal Patches
500
When the body needs a drug in order to function normally
What is Physical Dependence
500
These are only available through talking with your doctor
What are Prescription Medicines
500
These are the chemicals or agents in cigarette smoke that cause cancer
What are Carcinogens