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| Line of defense against disease |
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Barriers: Skin, Mucus membranes, closures and openings of natural openings (lips, eyelids)
Attack invaders: White blood cells, blood clotting, the inflammatory response
Immune System: White blood cells produce antibodies, memory cells enable the body to fight repeat infections |
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| Maximize effectiveness of the body's natural defense through drugs. Medicines supplement or natural healing process |
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| A chemical that effects how the body works (for better or for worse) |
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| A substance that improves health (natural or synthetic) |
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| beneficial effect of medicines |
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| Drugs effects on the body |
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| alterations of psych. state (consciusness), alteration of incoming sensation, alteration of mood or emotions |
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| Lethal dose to kill 50% of the population |
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| Effective dose needed to show change on 50% of the population |
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| Process of pharmaceutical company |
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| Research, development, testing |
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| Use of an inert pill in clinical tests in order to increase reliability of test (sugar pill) |
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| an effect that is not intended |
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| the physiological response to the body adapting to the action of the drug |
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Physical ( a drug user's body becomes accustomed to a drug that it can only function normally when the drug is present)
Physiological(when a drug is so central to a person's thoughts) |
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| Local anesthetics(dental); injected directly under the skin |
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| Vaccines; into the muscle |
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| most rapid effect; directly into blood stream |
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| Other methods of administration |
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| mouth (oral); inhalation; rectal |
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| simple bases (metal oxides, hydroxides, carbonates and hydrogencarbonates) |
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| neutralizing the acid, preventing inflammation, relieve pain and discomfort |
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| Magnesium can cause diarrhea; aluminum=constipation; absorption of phosphate can cause bone damage |
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| Prevent flatulence (most usual is dimethicone) |
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| pain killer/fever reducer |
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| intercepts pain at the source (prevents prostaglandin from being formed at the site of an injury or pain) |
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| block pain receptors in the brain |
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Side effect: stomach bleeding, Reye's disease in children; acidosis
ester group; caroxylic acid group |
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| Morphine (poppy) , Codeine (natural), demerol (synthetic), heroin (poppy). |
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| ketone group and an amine group |
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| Short term effect of opiates |
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| Induce feeling of euphoria, dulling of pain, depress nervous system, slow breathing and heart rate, cough reflex inhibited, nausea and vomiting, high doses:Coma or death |
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| Long term effect of opiates |
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| Constipation, lose sex drive, disrupts menstrul cycle, poor eating habits, Rick of diseases via shared needles, social problem |
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| depress the central nervous system by interferring the transmission of nerve impulses in the nerve cells. Slow does the functions of the body |
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| Short term effects of alcohol |
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| relaxtions, confidence, increase sociability, dialtes small blood vessels in the eyes, impairs judgement and concentration, speech is slurred, loss of balance, loss of consciousness, death from inhalation of vomit. |
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| Long term effects of alcohol |
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| liver damage (cancer and cirrhosis), coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes, risk of dimentia, miscarriage during pregnancy, delirum tremens (severe shakes) |
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| Synergistic effects of alcohol |
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| depresses the central nervous system |
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| Detection of alcohol in breath |
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| acidified potassium dichromate crystams turn to Cr3+ in the presence of alcohol |
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| C-H bonds, compared to 100cm^ of non-breath |
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| Chemically related to adrenaline (fight or flight hormone). "One which mimics the effect of stimulation on the sympathetic nervous system (sympathomimetic drug). |
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| Short term effect of stimulants |
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