Prescription Medicines
Medicines that can be sold only with a ____
written order from a physician
Prevent a disease from developing.
Vaccines
True
A drug that stimulates the central nervous system.
Amphetamine
Someone trained and licensed to prepare and sell medicines that a doctor prescribes.
Pharmacist
Medicines to fight infections
Antibiotics
Links together a bunch of brain structures that control our emotional responses
The limbic system
Substances that slow down the body's functions
Depressants
T or F: You should always read the instructions
before you start taking any kind of medication.
True
T or F: Antibodies are proteins that grow the bacteria causing the disease
False
In charge of all of the functions our body needs to stay alive
The brain stem
Substance the speeds up the body's functions
Stimulants
Only a ________ can fill a prescription written by a doctor.
Pharmacist
Medicine that helps relieve pain
Analgesics
The mushroom-like outer part of the brain
The cerebral cortex
A physical or psychological need for a drug.
Addiction
Name the five common mistakes made by individuals when taking medicines
Taking the incorrect dosage
Taking the medicine at the wrong time
Forgetting to take a dose
Failing to take all the medicine
Failing to ask questions about how to use
their medicine
What are the four ways medicine enter the body
Ingestion, Inhalation, Injection, and Absorption
How many primary areas of the brain does drug abuse affect?
3
Specific drugs that are obtainable only by prescription and are used to relieve pain
Narcotics