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Substances
Substances vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Drug | A substance, other than food, that changes the structure or function of the body |
| Medicane | Legal drugs that help the body fight injury, illness, or disease |
| Addiction | The drinker no longer has control of his or her drinking |
| Dependence | The brain develops a chemical need for alcohol and cannot function normally without it |
| Withdrawl | A group of systems that occur when the person stops taking a drug |
| Tolerance | Causes a drinker's body to need increasingly larger amounts of alcohol to achieve the original effect |
| Syngeristic | Occurs when drugs interact to produce effects greater than those that each drug would produce alone |
| Antagonistic | Occurs when each drug's effect is canceled out or reduced by the other. |
| Drug use | Using per label instruction to get rid of the pain or disease |
| Drug misuse | Taking more than the prescribed amount, taking drugs with the wrong foods at the wrong time of the day |
| Drug abuse | Uses "Painkillers" to get a certain high rather than to treat pain or a cough |
| Prescription drug | Can only be obtained by a doctors note at a pharmacy and are more controlled by the government |
| Over-the-counter drug (OTC) | Sold legally in pharmacies and other stores without a doctor's prescription |
| Stimulant | Increase the activity of the nervous system |
| Depressant | Slows down brain and body reactions |
| Hallucinogens | A drug that distorts perception, thought, and mood |
| Club Drugs | The strength or quality of the drug, their effects are different from person to person |
| Inhalants | A breathable chemical vapor that produces mind-altering effects |
| Steroids | To increase size and strength |
| Marijuana | May act as a depressant, stimulant, or hallucinogen |
| Gate-way drug | Leading to "harder" drugs |
| Analgesic | Pain reliever |
| Zero-tolerance law | Under aged person caught with alcohol or other drugs |
| Reverse-tolerance | Less and less alcohol causes intoxication |
| Intoxication | The state in which a person's mental and physical abilities are impaired by alcohol or another substance |
| Blood alcohol concentration (BAC) | The amount of alcohol in a persons blood, expressed as a precentage |
| Fetal alcohol syndrome | A group of birth defects caused by the effects of alcohol on an unborn child |
| Food and drug Administration (FDA) | Inspects, tests, and assesses the safety of food, drugs, and variety of consumer goods |
| Tar | A mixture of hundreds of chemicals |
| Nicotine | Addictive chemical in tobacco products |
| Carbon monoxide | Is produces when tobacco products are burned |
| Second hand smoke | Smoke inhaled by everyone near the smoker |
| Sidestream smoke | Smoke that goes directly into the air from the ciggerate |
| Mainstream smoke | Exhaled from the smoker's lungs |
| Emphysema | A disorder in which alveoli in the lungs can no longer function properly |
| Bronchitis | An infection that causes the mucous membranes lining the bronchi the become inflamed |
| Cirrohosis | Fat-filled liver cells die, leaving behind a useless scar tissue |
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