Overview on Drugs
What is any chemical substance that is taken to cause changes in a person's body or behavior.
What is a drug
An insecticide that is a very addictive chemical in tobacco products.
What is Nicotine
A state in which a person's mental and physical abilities are impaired by alcohol or another substance.
What is Intoxication
The person no longer has control over their drug use.
What is Addiction
Legal drugs that help the body fight injury, illness, or disease.
What are Medicines
Dark sticky substance that forms when tobacco burns
What is Tar
A state in which FEWER drinks are needed to cause the original effect.
What is Reverse Tolerance
A drug that increases the activity of the nervous system.
What is a stimulant
The improper and unintentional use of medicines.
What is Drug Misuse
Smoke that goes into the air directly from the cigarette
What is Sidestream Smoke
The amount of alcohol in a person's blood, expressed as a percentage.
What is blood alcohol concentration
Taking so much of a drug, that it leads to coma or death.
What is an overdose
The brain develops a chemical need for a drug and cannot function normally without it
What is Dependence
Smoke exhaled from the smokers lungs
Mainstream Smoke
This cause's a drug users body to need increasingly larger amounts of the drug to achieve the original effect.
What is Tolerance
A drug that slows brain and body reactions.
What is a Depressant
5 ways drugs can enter the system
What is orally, inhalants, injection, implantation, absorption
A substance known to cause cancer
What is a carcinogen
Alcohol is classified as what type of drug?
What is a Depressant
A drug that distorts perception, thought, and mood, causing a distorted sense of reality.
What is a Hallucinogens