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Why People Use
Drug Dependence
Tobacco
Alcohol
Drugs
100
Medication that does not require a prescription.
What is Over the Counter (OTC)?
100
Physical or emotional dependence on a drug.
What is addiction
100
A drug present in tobacco.
What is nicotine?
100
A person suffering from alcoholism.
What is an alcoholic?
100
A mood effecting drug made from the dried leaves of a kind of hemp plant.
What is marijuana?
200
A chemical substance, other than food that causes changes in the body.
What is a drug?
200
When a body becomes used to the effects of a drug.
What is tolerance?
200
A colorless, odorless, poisonous gas produced by burning tobacco.
What is carbon monoxide?
200
A loss of control over behavior and perceptions caused by drinking too much alcohol.
What is intoxication?
200
Toxic chemicals in the form of a gas that can be inhaled and used as a drug.
What are inhalants?
300
The improper use use of legal drugs.
What is drug misuse?
300
A painful reaction to not having a drug on which one is dependent.
What is withdrawl?
300
A thick, sticky, brown substance produced by burn ing tobacco.
What is tar.
300
A disease that causes a person to be dependent on alcohol.
What is alcoholism?
300
A manufactured drug that builds muscle, increases strength, and improves athletic performance.
What are artificial steroids?
400
The use of illegal drugs or the purposeful misuse if legal drugs.
What is drug abuse?
400
A serious, sometimes fatal, physical condition resulting from taking too much of a drug.
What is overdose?
400
A lung disease caused by severe blockage of the air exchange.
What is emphysema?
400
A measure of the amount of alcohol in the blood.
What is blood alcohol concentration (BAC)?
400
Any drug that affects the brain and nervous system, causing the user to have visions.
What are hallucinogens?
500
Plastic strips that help the consumer make sure no one has opened the container.
What are tamper proof seals?
500
A state in which the user does not admit dependence on a drug.
What is denial?
500
Tiny air sacs that cover the inner surface of the lungs.
What are alveoli?
500
A deadly liver disease that prevents the liver from filtering poisons from the blood.
What is cirrhosis?
500
Any one of several depressant drugs that come from the opium poppy plant.
What are narcotics?