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Alcohol
Tobacco
Drug Classifications
Drug Use and Abuse
Long Term Effects of Alcohol Use
100
Alcohol is classified as what type of drug?
A depressant
100
What is the addictive, habit-forming, drug found in tobacco?
Nicotine
100
A drug that speeds up the body's functions.
Stimulant
100
What does the term "OTC" stand for?
Over the Counter
100
What is the function of the liver (what does it do in the body)?
The liver cleanses the blood.
200
What does the term BAC stand for?
Blood Alcohol Concentration
200
What is the disease that results in the destruction of the alveoli in the lungs?
Emphysema
200
Drugs that slow down the body's functions and reactions, including heart and breathing rates.
Depressants
200
Taking or using medicine in a way that is not intended.
Drug misuse
200
An open sore in the stomach lining that occurs when a person uses too much alcohol over time.
Ulcer
300
What is the term used to describe when a person can die from drinking alcohol just once if he or she consumes too much in a short amount of time.
Alcohol Poisoning
300
A colorless, odorless, poisonous gas produced when tobacco burns.
Carbon monoxide
300
Illegal drugs that are found mostly in nightclubs or at all-night dance parties called raves
Club drugs
300
The body's need for larger and larger amounts of a drug to produce the same effect.
Tolerance
300
Using alcohol in ways that are unhealthy, illegal, or both.
Alcohol abuse
400
What is the name of the disease in which a person has a physical and psychological need for alcohol?
Alcoholism
400
What are the unpleasant symptoms that someone experiences when he or she stops using an addictive substance, such as tobacco?
Withdrawal symptoms
400
Drugs that get rid of pain and dull the senses.
Narcotics
400
When a drug is broken down in fat cells and returns to the bloodstream, it is known as what? (the person feels the same as if they had used the drug)
Flashback
400
The scarring and destruction of liver tissue is known as what?
Cirrhosis
500
What are 3 factors that determine the effect alcohol has on people?
1. Size and gender 2. Food in the stomach 3. How fast a person drinks 4. Other substances in the body
500
What do you call air that has been contaminated by tobacco smoke?
Secondhand smoke
500
Strong stimulant drugs that speed up the nervous system.
Amphetamines
500
What is it called when you take a fatal (deadly) amount of a drug?
Overdose
500
What does the term FAS stand for?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome