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Health ATOD Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Effects of Tobacco, Alcohol and Drug Use | vomiting, headaches, blackouts, cancer, brain shrinkage, cells destroyed, heart attack. In short: sickness, illness, and possibly death |
| Problems associated with Fetus and Alcohol/ Cigarette Abuse | malnutrition, lack of oxygen, premature delivery, miscarriage, trembles and jerks, fetal death |
| Drug Use | The therapeutic use of a legal drug in the proper amount |
| Drug Misuse | The deliberate, non-therapeutic use of a drug which if continued may become detrimental to the individual |
| Drug Abuse | The deliberate, non-therapeutic use of a drug, which is detrimental to the individual |
| Which nicotine substitutes are not addictive? | Zyban, nicotine patch, cold turkey |
| Chemical Dependency Stages(4) | Denial, Home treatment, Chaos and Disorganization, Reorganization |
| Family Roles(5) | Chief Enabler, Family Hero, Family Scapegoat, Lost Child, Family Mascot |
| Four Stages of Addiction | Learning the mood swing, Seeking the mood swing, Preoccupation with mood swing, Use to Feel Normal |
| Carbon Monoxide | The poison in tobacco that causes shortness of breath |
| Nicotine | Poison that is the psychoactive ingredient in cigarettes |
| Halitosis | bad breath caused by tobacco |
| Smokeless Tobacco | using tobacco without smoking, for example, chewing tobacco |
| Carcinogen | cancer causing agent |
| Nicotine Substitutes | ways to stop smoking, nicotine gum, nicotine, patch, nicotine spray, nicotine inhaler, zyban, cold turkey, nicotine lozenge's |
| Detoxification | the process of riding the body of toxins |
| Fermentation | a process of making alcohol |
| Relapse | to go back to a previous state |
| Sobriety | the state of being sober |
| Ethanol | pure alcohol |
| DUI | driving under the influence |
| BAC | % of alcohol in blood |
| Cirrhosis | A disease that affects liver function, cause by alcoholism |
| Alcoholism | the addiction to alcohol |
| FAS | fetal alcohol syndrome |
| Alcoholic | a person who is addicted to alcohol |
| Peer pressure | the people around you telling you to do something because "everyone's doing it" |
| Intoxication | being under the influence of alcohol or drugs |
| Binge Drinking | having 5 or more drinks consecutively |
| Addiction | compulsive drug use, with a loss of control, and continued despite consequences |
| Tolerance | the need for higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effects |
| Withdrawal | a set of symptoms a person experiences in the absence of a drug |
| Psychological Dependence | a craving that requires periodic or chronic drug an administration for pleasure or relief of psychological discomfort |
| GHB | a sedative that causes confusion, loss of coordination, alters brain chemicals |
| Rohypnol | sedative that is tasteless and odorless, date rape drug, causes amnesia |
| LSD | a mood-changing hallucinogen that messes up a users image of reality |
| Gateway Drugs | drugs that led to more serious and dangerous drugs |
| Psychoactive Drugs | drugs that create an effect on a person's mood or behavior |
| Ketamine(tranquilizer) | a depressant that causes numbness and hallucinations |
| Inhalants | volatile substances whose chemical vapors can be inhaled to produce mind-altering effects |
| Narcotics | from derived from opium plant,used to relieve pain, only available with prescription |
| Stimulant | drugs that speed up the central nervous system |
| Depressants | drugs that slow down the central nervous system |
| Hallucinogens | drugs that alter moods and thoughts |
| Designer Drugs | synthetic substances made to irritate the effects of narcotics and hallucinogens |
| Leukoplakia | a disease where white patches show up on the cheek |
| PCP | phencyclidine |
| Euphoria | a feeling of happiness during a high |
| Heroin | narcotic |
| Cocaine/ Crack | stimulant |
| Analgesics | pain relievers |
| Additive Information | 2 chemicals that have an equal effect together and separately |
| Antagonistic Information | 2 chemicals that have a less effect together than separately |
| Physiological Dependence | physical need for a drug |