Vocab
A drug a substance other than food that changes the structure of function of the body or mind.
What is a drug?
Alcohol is this type of drug.
What is depressant?
A chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful circumstances
What is addiction?
How is marijuana bad from the brain?
They mess with attention, memory, and learning.
a drug that slows down the body’s function and reactions, including heart and breathing rates.
What is a depressant?
Caffeine, Nicotine, and Meth are an example of this drug.
What is a stimulant?
people need more drugs to get the same “high” that they got the first time
What is tolerance?
What is one question that you should ask the doctor BEFORE being prescribed an Opioid/Narcotic?
Talk about it
A substance that speeds up the body. It elevates mood, alertness and energy and may help maintain mental focus, intensify concentration, augment energy and reduce appetite.
What is a stimulant?
The most addictive substance.
What is Alcohol?
What are three factors that than lead someone to become addicted to drugs?
What is genetics, environment, developmental factors?
Why do people take illegal drugs?
The return to an addictive behavior.
What is relapse?
A medicine that can be purchased legally without a prescription
What is Over the Counter Medicine?
True of False? The brain changes after time when someone takes drug. It effects a person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
Fill in the blank: You can experience withdrawal symptoms and can become addicted within __ -__ days of taking the prescription.
7-14
Intentionally using drugs in a way that is unhealthful or illegal
What is Drug Abuse?
A medicine that can be obtained only through a written form from a physician and can be purchased only at a pharmacy.
What is prescription?
Surges of dopamine in the reward circuit cause the reinforcement of pleasurable but unhealthy behaviors like taking drugs, leading the people to repeat the behavior again and again.
What is how drugs reward the brain?
How to properly dispose of prescription drugs
Put the drugs with some dirt, then fill up a baggy with it, then throw it in the trash. Last, black out your personal information on the container.