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Using Medicines Safely
Alcohol
Drug Use & Abuse
Nervous System
Miscellaneous
100
Medicines fight germs. _________ are a type of medicine used to fight disease-causing germs. They kill harmful bacteria that can cause infections.
What are antibiotics?
100
Drinking alcohol can cause damage to the lining of the stomach and eventually can cause these sores.
What are ulcers?
100
______ means using drugs in ways that are unhealthy or illegal. An example is taking cold medicine to help you sleep.
What is Drug Abuse?
100
The cells that make up the nervous system are called _______. They send and receive information in the form of tiny electrical charges.
What are neurons or nerve cells?
100
These are substances whose fumes are inhaled to produce hallucinations. Most are common household products no meant to be taken into the body. They can kill brain cells, causing permanent brain damage or comma.
What is inhalants?
200
These medicines can only be sold with a written order from a doctor.
What are prescription medicines?
200
This is the physical and mental need for something (alcohol).
What is addiction?
200
A series of mental and physical symptoms that occur when a person stops using an addictive substance. These symptoms may include vomiting, hallucinations, and severe anxiety.
What are Withdrawals?
200
The _______ is the largest organ of the central nervous system. It is the command center or coordinator of the nervous system.
What is the brain?
200
____________ are synthetic drugs based on a male hormone. Some athletes use these illegally to increase their body weight and strength. They should Never be used for this purpose. Users may become violent, aggressive and deeply depressed. They may also cause liver and brain cancer and heart attacks.
What is anabolic steroids?
300
These medicines are available without a written order from a doctor.
What are Nonprescription (or over-the-counter) medicines?
300
This slows down with alcohol. You have trouble thinking, speaking and moving. You do things you normally wouldn't do.
What is the brain?
300
_____ are drugs that speed up the body’s functions. They cause blood pressure to rise, the heart to beat faster, breathing rate to increase and the pupils of the eyes to dilate.
What are stimulants?
300
This is a long bundle of neurons that relay messages to and from the brain and all parts of the body.
What is the spinal cord?
300
This government agency reviews all medicines sold in the United States to make sure they are safe. It can often take several y ears to determine a medicine’s long term effects. They also decide whether a medicine must be sold with a prescription or over the counter.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
400
You may experience a reaction to some types of medicines. A ______ is any reaction to a medicine other than the one intended.
What is a side effect?
400
This is destruction and scarring of liver tissue and can lead to death.
What is cirrhosis?
400
These are illegal drugs that cause the user’s brain to distort images and to see and hear things that aren’t real.
What are hallucinogens?
400
This makes up the nerves that connect the central nervous system to all parts of the body.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
400
A group of permanent physical and mental problems caused by a mother's use of alcohol while pregnant.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)?
500
Medicines prevent diseases. _____________ (also called immunizations) are medicines that protect against diseases that can spread such as measles and mumps.
What are vaccines?
500
Regina Benjamin MBA is the 18th ___________________ of the United States
What is Surgeon General?
500
This is the use of illegal or harmful drugs, including any use of alcohol while under the legal drinking age.
What is substance abuse?
500
Several factors can lead to nervous system disorders. The most common cause is physical injury. The results of head, neck and back injuries can be severe. A spinal cord injury can cause _________ which is a loss of feeling and movement in parts of the body.
What is paralysis?
500
These are the 3 parts of the brain.
What are cerebrum, cerebellum and brain stem?