Vocabulary
Any substance other than food that alters the body or mind.
What is a Drug?
Tobacco smoke in the air or clothes breathed in by non-smokers.
What is secondhand smoke?
The drug class that alcohol belongs to.
Drugs that slow down the body’s systems.
What are depressants?
The body needs the substance to function.
What is Physical Dependance?
B.A.C. or B.A.L.
What is blood alcohol level or blood alcohol concentration?
Drugs that are safe enough to be take without a prescription.
What are OTC (Over The Counter Drugs)?
Is the stimulant drug in tobacco that speeds up the heart rate.
What is Nicotine?
The group of physical and mental symptoms that appear in a baby when the mother drinks during pregnancy.
What is FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome)?
Drugs that speed up the body’s systems.
What are stimulants?
The support group for alcoholics.
Alcoholics Anonymous?
Drugs that help increase muscle mass.
What are steroids?
Preparations of dead or weakened germs that cause the immune system to produce antibodies.
What is a Vaccine?
The thick dark liquid that forms when tobacco burns.
What is Tar?
The disease associated with alcohol addiction.
What is alcoholism?
Drugs that make the user see and or hear things that are not really there.
What are hallucinogens?
A stage of addiction.
What is:
First Use
Regular Use
Intensified Use
Total Dependency
Three inhalants.
What are markers, glue, gas, solvents, paint, whipettes,?
The physical and/or mental need for a drug.
What is Addiction?
The harmful effect of smoking on the stomach.
What are ulcers?
The amount of alcohol in one drink.
What is .6 oz?
Drugs that relieve pain.
What are narcotics?
A mental dependence. The person believes they need the drug to function.
What is psychological dependence?
The sizes of a serving of:
Beer
Wine
Alcohol
That is equal to one standard drink.
What is:
Beer = 12oz
Wine = 5oz.
Alcohol = 1.5 oz.
What is withdrawal?
The poisonous gas produced when tobacco burns.
What is carbon monoxide?
The effect of when it takes more of a drug to produce the same reaction.
What is Tolerance?
Are three narcotic drugs.
What are codine, opium, heroin, vicodin, oxycotin and morphine.
A recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through repetition.
What is a habit?
The drug in Marijuana.
What is THC?