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| substances taken into the body that change one or more of the body's functions |
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| drugs used to help cure diseases, lessen disease severity, relieve symptoms, prevent disease, help with diagnosis, or produce other desired effects |
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| effects of drugs other than the desired medical effects |
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| a state that develops in user of certain drugs that makes larger and larger amounts of the drugs necessary to produce the same effect |
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| a physical or psychological craving for higher and higher doeses of a drug that leads to bodily harm, social maladjustment, or economic hardship |
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| the combined action of two days that is greater than or different from the action of either drug alone |
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| a drug that opposes the action of another drug |
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drugs used to fight bacterial infection |
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| drugs that kill pain, with or without producing loss of consciousness |
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| the amoth of a drug necessary to produce death |
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| over-the-counter (OTC) drugs |
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| drugs legally available without a prescription |
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| drugs legally available only with a physicians order |
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| the chemical names for drugs, as opposed to the brand names; the names everyone can use |
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| the names companies give to drugs; the names by which they are sold |
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| ingredients in a medicine that produce physical effects on the body |
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| a mild stimulant of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) found in common foods, beverages, and medicines |
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| any of a wide variety of drugs, including amphetamines, caffeine, and others, that speed up the central nervous system |
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| the taking of a drug for its medically intended purpose, and in the appropriate amount, frequency, strength, and manner |
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| the deliberate taking of a drug for other than a medical purpose and in a manner that can result in damage to a persons health or ability to function |
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| the taking of a drug for its medically intended purpose, but not in the appropriate amount, frequency, strength, or manner |
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| a term made up, to describe their drug use, by people who clain their drug taking produces no harmful social or health effects;term not defined by the FDA |
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| a sense of great well-being and pleasure brought on by some drugs; popularly called a high |
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| drug addiction (dependence) |
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| a physical or psychological need for higher and higher doses of a drug |
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| chemicals in the brain that produce feelings of pleasure in response to a variety of activities |
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| unpleasant feelings that occur when endorphins are lacking; these feelings often follow drug-induced euphoria |
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a change in the body's chemistry so that without the presence of a substance (drug), normal functioning begins to fail, and withdrawal symptoms set in; also called physical dependence |
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| the physical symptoms that occur when a drug to which a person is addicted is cleared from the body tissues |
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| a craving for something, mental dependence on a drug, habit, or behavior; also called psychological dependence |
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| false perceptions; imagined sights, sounds, smells, or other feelings, sometimes brought on by drug abuse, sometimes by mental or physical illness |
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| powerful, addictive stimulant drugs. Because they suppress appetite, they are reserved for use in cases where overfatness threatens health. Also called speed |
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| drugs that have a soothing or tranquilizing effect |
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| depressant drugs that slow the activity of the central nervous system |
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| a group of drugs derived from the opium poppy, that relieve pain and induce sleep. Also known as narcotics |
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| habit-forming drugs that relieve pain and produce sleep when taken in moderate doses. Also called opiates, because most are derived from the opium poppy. |
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| a narcotic drug that is commonly used for suppressing coughs |
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| a narcotic drug that relieves pain and induces sleep, made from the opium poppy |
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| a narcotic drug that physicians perscribe as a painkiller |
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| a narcotic drug derived from morphine |
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| drugs that cause visions and other sensory illusions |
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| LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) |
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| a powerful hallucinogenic drug. Also called an acid |
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| PCP (phencyclidine hydrochloride) |
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an animal tranquilizer, abused by human beings as a hallucinogen |
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| a cactus that produces the hallucinogen mescaline |
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| the hallucinogen produced by the peyote cactus |
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| laboratory-made drugs that closely resemble illegal drugs in chemical structure, but that are different enough to be leagl until ruled illegal |
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| a free,self-help program of addiction recovery. It uses a 12-step program, promotes personal growth, and leads to the person's helping others to recovery |
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| a drug used to treat heroin addiction; it holds off withdrawal and helps people recover socially |
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drugs that oppose the actions of other drugs. |
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| a class of chemical compounds |
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| The disease characterized by loss of control over drinking and dependence on alcohol, both of which harm health, family relations, and social and work functioning |
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| an amount of alcohol that causes no harm to health; not more than one to two drinks a day for healthy adults |
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| the amount of beverage that delivers 1/2 ounce of pure ethanol-12 ounces of beer, 3 to 4 ounces of wine, 1(10 ounce) wine cooler, or 1 ounce of 100 proof liquor |
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| a measure of the percentage of alcohol in alcoholic beverages. 100 means 50% alcohol, 90 means 45% alcohol |
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| literally, a state of being poisoned; often used to mean drunkness |
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| does not drink excessively. The person doesn't behave inappropriately because of alcohol. The person's health is not harmed by alcohol over the long term. |
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| drinks only on social occasions |
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| drinks four or more drinks in a short period |
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| suffers social, emotional, family, job-related, or other problems because of alcohol. |
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| alcohol addict (alcoholic) |
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this person's problems, caused by alcohol abuse, are out of control. It runs their life |
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| fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) |
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| a cluster of birth defects, including permanent mental and physical retardationg and facial abnormalities, seen in children born to mothers who abuse alcohol during pregnancy |
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| driving under the influence of alcohol or other mind-altering substances |
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| a test of the alcohol level in a person's breath, which reflects the blood level of alcohol |
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| free of alcohol's effects and of addiction; not drunk |
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| makes possible. In addiction, means "helping" trying to "save" the addicted person from the consequences of the beahvior. This makes possible continued alcohol or other drug abuse. |
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| an enabler who is a member of the family of, or has a close relationship with, a person addicted to a drug |
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| refusal to believe the facts of a circumstance |
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| episodes of amnesia regarding periods of time while drinking |
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| awful feeling of headache pain, unpleasant sensations in the mouth, and nausea that a drinker suffers the morning after drinking too much-mild form of withdrawal |
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| an addictive drug present in tobacco |
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| a drug whose abuse is likely to lead to abuse of other, more potent and dangerous drugs. (Alcohol, marijuana, tobacco) |
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| chemicals present in tobacco |
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| cancer-causing agents. burning tars release this |
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| a disease of the lungs in which many small, flexible air sacs burst and form a few large, rigid air pockets |
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| a deadly gas; a gas formed during the burning of tobacco |
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| the smoke that flows through the cigarette and into the lungs when a smoker inhales |
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| the smoke that escapes into the air from the burning tip of a cigarette or cigar, or form burning pipe tobacoo. |
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| environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) |
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| the combination of exhaled mainstream smoke and sidestream smoke that enters the air and may be inhaled by other people |
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| tobacco used for snuff or chewing rather than for smoking |
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| a physical or psychological craving for higher and higher doses of a drug that leads to bodily harm. Dependence on a substance, habit, or behvaior. |
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| What does the term addiction mean? |
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| overusing addictivce substances. soon recquires higher and higher amounts of something |
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What causes a person to become addicted? |
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| the physical symptoms that occur when a drug to which a person is addicted to is cleared from the body tissues |
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| The legal level of Blood Alcohol Concentration to drive in Florida |
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| How many drinks would you have to have to reach the Blood Alcohol Concentration? |
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| a measure of the percentage of alcohol in alcoholic beverages |
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size and weight, ate or not, amount they drink, type of alcohol |
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| What factores affect how alcohol will affect someone? |
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-acts against all reason and judgment -speech, vision, and coordination are disabled -disturbs sleep -dulls awareness |
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| What are short term affects of alcohol? |
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-liver disease -ulcers -shrinking of body's muscles -lung damage -mental illness |
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| What are the long term effects of alcohol? |
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| mild form of withdrawal. Awful feeling of headache pain, unpleasant sensations in the mouth, and nausea that a drinker suffers the morning after drinking |
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Nicotine is an addictive drug present in tobacco. |
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| Why are cigarettes addictive? |
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-Hard to breathe -relieves stress |
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| What are the intitial effects of tobacco? |
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-ruins your lungs -cancer -heart problems |
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| What are the delayed effects of tobacco? |
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| What is the chemical in marijuana that can be detected in the body? |
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| How many chemicals are tehre in cigarrettes? |
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-travels in blood -affects sensitive brain centers -hallucinations -sense of time and space mesed up |
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What are the short term effects of marijuana? |
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-brain damage -alters hearing, touch, tastes, and smell -sleep patterns -cancer |
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| What ar the long term effects of marijuana? |
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| How many chemicals have been identified in marijuana? |
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| stimulants, increase activity, block fatigue and hunger, produce euphoria, addictive |
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| What do amphetamines (uppers) do to the body? |
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| sedatives, act as depressants, slowing the body systems |
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| What do barbiturates (depressants) do to the body? |
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| harmful, alter reality, abuse, dangerous |
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| Why have cocaine and marijauna been made illegal? |
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| What is ecstasy and why is it so addictive? |
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| originally an animal tranquilizer |
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| Why is heroine so addictive? |
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1. type 2. size, weight 3. amount |
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| What factors determine how alcohol will effect a person? |
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| 1 hour for 1/2 an ounce of alcohol |
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| How long does it take for your body to eliminate alcohol? |
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-tars-most harmful -carcinogens -flavoring agents: cocoa, licorice, prune and raisin juice -mostening juice.... |
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cancer, hear and cardiovascular system, shuts down cirulation, causes wrinkiling of the skin and graying of the hair, slows normal growth of lungs, ulcers, risk of heart attack and stroke, infertile, gum disease, prevents normal sleep, impaired memory, and more.... |
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