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Health ATOD Test

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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
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