Preventing Drug Abuse

Medicines

• A legal drug that helps the body fight injury, illness, or disease.
• A residential treatment center where former drug abusers live together and learn to adjust to drug-free lives.
• A medicine That is sold legally in pharmacies and other stores without a doctor's prescription.
• A drug that can be obtained only with a written order from a doctor and can be purchased only at a pharmacy.

Over-the -counter drugs

• A legal drug that helps the body fight injury, illness, or disease.
• A residential treatment center where former drug abusers live together and learn to adjust to drug-free lives.
• A drug that can be obtained only with a written order from a doctor and can be purchased only at a pharmacy.
• A medicine That is sold legally in pharmacies and other stores without a doctor's prescription.

Prescription drugs

• A legal drug that helps the body fight injury, illness, or disease.
• A medicine That is sold legally in pharmacies and other stores without a doctor's prescription.
• A drug that can be obtained only with a written order from a doctor and can be purchased only at a pharmacy.
• A chemical substance that people of any age may not lawfully manufacture, possess, buy, or sell.

Illegal drugs

• A legal drug that helps the body fight injury, illness, or disease.
• A chemical substance that people of any age may not lawfully manufacture, possess, buy, or sell.
• A medicine That is sold legally in pharmacies and other stores without a doctor's prescription.
• A drug that can be obtained only with a written order from a doctor and can be purchased only at a pharmacy.

Drug misuse

• The improper use of medicines -either prescription or over-the-counter drugs.
• The intentional improper or unsafe use of a drug.
• An unwanted physical or mental effect caused by a drug.
• A condition that occurs when one drug's effect is canceled out or reduced by another.

Drug abuse

• The improper use of medicines -either prescription or over-the-counter drugs.
• An unwanted physical or mental effect caused by a drug.
• A condition that occurs when one drug's effect is canceled out or reduced by another.
• The intentional improper or unsafe use of a drug.

Side effect

• The improper use of medicines -either prescription or over-the-counter drugs.
• An unwanted physical or mental effect caused by a drug.
• The intentional improper or unsafe use of a drug.
• A condition that occurs when one drug's effect is canceled out or reduced by another.

Drug antagoism

• A condition that occurs when one drug's effect is canceled out or reduced by another.
• The improper use of medicines -either prescription or over-the-counter drugs.
• The intentional improper or unsafe use of a drug.
• An unwanted physical or mental effect caused by a drug.

Drug synergism

• A factor that reduces a person's potential for harmful behavior.
• A drug that slows brain and body reaction.
• A chemical that affects brain activity; also known as a "mood-altering" drug.
• A condition that occurs when drugs interact to produce effects greater than those that each drug would produce alone.

Protective factor

• A condition that occurs when drugs interact to produce effects greater than those that each drug would produce alone.
• A drug that slows brain and body reaction.
• A factor that reduces a person's potential for harmful behavior.
• A chemical that affects brain activity; also known as a "mood-altering" drug.