Question | Answer |
What do drugs do? | Drugs alter the chemical processes in your body. |
What can happen with drugs? | The body can become addicted to the drug. |
What can happen if an addict doesn't take drugs? | They can suffer from withdrawal symptoms. |
Name some addictive drugs. | • Cocaine
• Heroin
• Nicotine
• Caffeine |
What do performance enhancing drugs do generally? | Improve an person's performance in sports. |
What are the different types of performance enhancing drugs and what do they do? | • Anabolic Steroids (increase muscle size)
• Stimulants (increase heart rate) |
What are the negatives to performance enhancing drugs? Give an example. | They may have side effects, for example steroids can cause high blood pressure. |
What are the ethical arguments for performance enhancing drugs? | • They have the right to make their own decisions.
• Sport isn't fair anyway because people have different access to different facilities. |
What are the ethical arguments against performance enhancing drugs? | • Its an unfair advantage.
• Athletes might not know the health risks of the drugs. |
What are statins? | Prescribed drugs used to lower the risk of heart and circulatory diseases. |
What else do scientists think that statins do? | Lower blood cholesterol. |
What have scientists tried to determine that cannabis causes? | Mental health issues. |
What are drugs tested on in the lab? | Human cells and tissues. |
What is the problem with this and how is it solved? | You can't test how a drug will affect a whole body or body system, so we test drugs on animals as well. |
Give 3 reasons why we test drugs on live animals. | • To see if they work.
• To test they toxicity.
• To see which is the best dosage |
Why is a drug tested on healthy volunteers before anyone else? | To see if it causes side effects. |
What is a double blind drug trial? | Patients are put in to two groups, one with the drug and one with the placebo but neither know which one. This is to stop people feeling better with a placebo effect. |
Why don't the doctors know which is which in a double blind drug trial? | So their own knowledge doesn't influence them when testing the patients. |
What was thalidomide originally tested for? | Sleeping pill and then for morning sickness. |
What can it be used to treat now because they stopped for morning sickness after a bunch of babies died? | Leprosy and some cancers. |
Give two reasons why people use recreational drugs. | • Relaxation/Stress relief
• Because of their personal life |
Give three opinions that link Cannabis with harder drug use. | • Stepping stone (Desire for harder drugs)
• Gateway (Dealers etc)
• Genetics (Certain people are affected by certain things and are more likely to try other drugs) |
What has more impact in the UK , illegal or legal drugs and why? | Legal because:
• More readily available |
What are the health effects of smoking? | • Disease of the heart, blood vessels and lungs
• Causes cancer
• Nicotine causes addiction |
What are the health effects of drinking? | • Nervous system affected and body's reactions slowed down
• Impaired judgement
• Brain damage
• Addictive |