Personal health/Fitn Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Drugs | Any substance that changes a person's physical or psychological state |
Medicines | drug used to cure,prevent or treat illness or discomfort |
Good Medicines have the following qualities | effectiveness / safety / Minor side effects |
Natural sources | plants,animals, or fungi |
Man-made sources | labs |
FDA steps of proving a drug is safe | 1.chemical or cell-culture testing in labs 2. testing on animals 3.testing on human volunteers 4.clinical trials to compare to existing drugs |
Addiction | a condition in which a person can no longer control his or her drug use |
steps of drug addiction | 1. Drug use 2. tolerance 3.dependence 4. drug addiction |
Withdrawal | the symptoms that occur when a drug user stops using a drug |
Physical state of Alcohol | liver works harder , lose body heat, dehydration |
Mental state of Alcohol | loose coordination and judgement, lose inhibitions(take risks), |
Blood Alcohol Concentration(BAC) | % of alcohol in the blood |
Cirrhosis | a disease in which your healthy liver tissue is replaced with scar tissue( long-term) |
Driving Under Influence (DUI) | anyone with a BAC above 0.08% |
Alcohol abuse | drinking too much at one time,drinking too often, and drinking at inappropriate times |
Alcoholics | physically and emotionally addicted to alcohol |
Codependency | Family member or friends sacrifices his or her own needs to meet the needs of an addict |
Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) | physical and mental defects that affect a fetus who was exposed to alcohol in the womb |
Body phases | Ingestion,movement,mechanical and chemical digestion, absorption, and elimination |
Liver | produces bile and filters out toxins and waste |
Pancreas | regulates blood sugar by producing insulin |
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