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Mme Collins, Health-Medicine

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Medicine   a substance that when taken into or applied to the body helps prevent or cure some disease, injury, or medical problem  
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Vaccine   a preparation containing weakened or dead pathogens of a particular disease given to prevent one from contracting that disease  
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Pharmacist   a person concerned with the preparation, distribution and sale of medicines  
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Drug   dangerous and often illegal substance, including alcohol and tobacco  
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Additive interaction   when medicines work together in a positive way  
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Synergistic effect   the interaction of two or more medicines that results in a greater effect than when the medicines are taken independently  
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Antagonistic interaction   when the effect of a medicine is reduced or cancelled when taken with other medicine  
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Tolerance   a state when the body becomes used to the effect of a medicine or drug and requires larger doses of that medicine/drug to produce the same effect  
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Withdrawal   the state when a person stops taking a medicine to which he/she is physiologically dependant: symptoms include nervousness, insomnia, severe nausea, headaches, vomiting, chills and cramps  
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Medicine misuse   using a medicine in a way that is not intended  
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