Tobacco/Vaping
A highly addictive drug found in all tobacco products
What is nicotine?
The inability to control drinking due to both a physical and emotional dependence on alcohol.
What is alcoholism?
Drugs that are not legally permitted or authorized.
What are illicit drugs?
Something that treats, prevents, and/or alleviates the symptoms of disease
What is medicine?
A state in which the body needs a drug to functional normally
What is physical dependence?
This disease is caused primarily by smoking tobacco.
What is lung cancer?
The percent of alcohol in a person's bloodstream.
What is Blood Alchohol Concentration (BAC)?
A plant whose leaves, buds, and flowers are usually smoked for their intoxicating effects. It's legality differs from state to state.
What is marijuana?
Medicines you can buy without a doctor's prescription
What are over-the-counter medicines?
The way in which the body responds when a dependent person stops using a drug
What is withdrawal?
Substances that cause cancer.
What are carcinogens?
A group of conditions that can occur in a person who was exposed to alcohol before birth.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
Drugs that alter sensation and perception and often cause visual and auditory hallucinations
What are hallucinogens?
Any effect that is different from the drug's intended effect
What are side effects?
The body's need for larger and larger amounts of a drug to produce the same effect
What is tolerance?
The action or practice of inhaling and exhaling vapor containing nicotine and flavoring produced by a device designed for this purpose.
What is vaping?
A colorless volatile flammable liquid which is produced by the natural fermentation of sugars, and acts as the intoxicating agent in liquors.
What is ethanol?
Substances whose fumes are sniffed and inhaled to achieve a mind altering effect
What are inhalants?
a synthetic variant of the male hormone testosterone that mimics some of its effects
What are steroids?
A dosage larger than the reccomended or prescribed dosage of a drug.
What is an overdosage?
Smoke released from the burning end of a ciggerete.
What is sidestream smoke?
A complex biochemical process during which yeasts convert sugars inside alcohol to ethanol, carbon dioxide, and other metabolic byproducts.
What is alcohol fermentation?
Synthetic substances meant to imitate the effects of more common illegal drugs.
What are designer drugs?
The interaction of 2 or more medicines (or drugs) that results in a greater effect that when the medicines were taken independently.
What is a synergistic effect?
The act of fully stopping a habit caused by addiction.
What is cessation?