Health Ch 14 Quiz

is a drug used to prevent or treat illnesses or diseases.

• Medicine

• Over-the-counter medicine

• Prescription medicine

is a substance other than food that changes the structure or function of the body or mind

• Marijuana

• Drug

• Over-the-counter medicine

Are medicines that are safe enough to be taken without a prescription.

• Euphoria

• Drug

• Over-the-counter medicine

Are medicines that can be sold only with a written order from a physician or doctor.

• Detoxification

• Prescription medicine

• Amnesia

any effect of a medicine other than the one intended.

• Side Effect

• Tolerance

• Opium

a condition in which a person’s body becomes used to the effects of a drug and needs greater and greater amounts of it in order for it to be effective.

• THC

• Tolerance

• Hallucinogens

dried leaves and flowers of the hemp plant, called cannabis sativa.

• Stimulants

• Narcotics

• Marijuana

the main active chemical in marijuana.

• THC

• Narcotics

• Medicine

partial or total loss of memory.

• Narcotics

• Hallucinogens

• Amnesia

specific drugs that are obtainable only by prescription and are used to relieve pain.

• Stimulants

• Narcotics

• Side Effect