Drugs and alcohol green Flashcards
Specified amount take for cure. UTC drugs have no dosage. Depends on illness and or body weight
Dosage
The physically addicting agent found in cigarettes.
Nicotine
How are drugs are taken?
Orally, Injected, Inhaled and Absorbed
PED-Performance Enhancing Drug. Quick strength, speed and muscles. Side effects; hair loss, acne, sterile, anger
Steroid
Out of reach, out of sight and locked up if possible.
Drug Storage (drug safety)
Skoal, Copenhagen or chewing tobacco. Can cause gum, lip, and throat cancer.
Smokeless Tobacco
The process of backing your body down off a drug that you have become addicted to.
Detoxification
When your body has become addicted to a drug and you take that drug away, your body reacts in different ways. Shaking, vomiting, headaches, nervousness.
Withdrawal
Unwanted effects, as your body reacts to a drug.
Side Effects
If someone suddenly stops taking drugs, instead of slowly cutting down.
Cold Turkey
Your body becomes used to a drug, so it takes more of the drug to get the same effect
Tolerance
Your body craves a drug and won’t let you go on without that drug
Physically Addicting
Misuse of any drug.
Abuse
-uncontrolled, compulsive use
-life seems impossible without it
-not having it leads to anxiety
-caffeine…I NEED COFFEE!
Your mind convinces you that you have to have a drug to survive
Psychologically Addicting
a drug that slows down the central nervous system.
Examples; alcohol and marijuana
Depressant
