Drugs
Category of drugs that comes from the opium poppy
What are narcotics?
Double the percentage of alcohol in a beverage
What is proof?
Stimulant found in tobacco
What is nicotine?
Tiny hairlike structures in the respiratory tract that are damaged by smoking
What is cilia?
What is marijuana?
Street names for the smokable form of cocaine
What is crack?
In the U.S the legal blood alcohol concentration limit for drivers is
What is 0.08%
A poisonous gas in cigarette smoke and car exhaust fumes.
What is carbon monoxide?
An abnormal growth of cells in the lungs
What is lung cancer?
needing more of a drug to feel the same effect
What is tolerance?
When a person suddenly stops or cuts back on the use of an addictive substance they may experience?
What is withdrawls
Out of these 3 types of alcohol hard liquor, wine, and beer, which one would have the highest proof?
What is hard liquor?
A black sticky substance in tobacco that causes cancer
What is tar?
Liver disease common in alcoholics
What is cirrhosis?
This happens when a toxic amount of a drug, or a combination of drugs overwhelms the body.
What is an overdose
This drug was thought to be a cure for morphine addiction
What is heroine?
Consuming a large amount of alcohol in a short time period
What is binge drinking
Finely ground tobacco that is inhaled or put between the cheek and gum
What is snuff?
A condition when air sacs in the lungs lose their elasticity
What is emphysema?
It takes nicotine 10 seconds to reach your brain?
True or False
True
The four main methods of taking drugs
What are sniffing, swallowing, injecting, and smoking?
What does BAC stand for
What is Blood Alcohol Concentration?
True or False?
A single hit of a cigarette introduces 7,000 chemicals into the lungs
True
A disease in which excessive mucus is produced in the bronchial tubes
What is bronchitis?
Name 3 inhalants
Gas, paint, hairspray...