Drugs and Toxicology Vocab Review

conditions are severe and sudden in onset.

• Acute

• Chronic

• organic

• inorganic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A chemical substance that affects the processes of the mind or body; a substance used in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a disease; a substance used recreationally for its effects on the mind or body, such as a narcotic or hallucinogen

• Anabolic Steroid

• Drug

• Hallucinogen

• Toxin

Physiological need for a drug that has been brought about by its regular use; dependence is characterized by withdrawal sickness when administration of the drug is abruptly stopped

• Toxicologist

• Psychological dependence

• Physical dependence

• spectrophotometry

A poisonous substance naturally produced by certain plants, animals, and bacteria that is capable of causing disease or death in humans; a subgroup of poisons

• Poison

• stimulant

• venom

• Toxin

Promotes muscle growth

• Narcotic

• Steroid

• Hallucinogen

• Stimulant

A means of separating and tentatively identifying the components of a mixture

• Chromatography

• Microcrystalline tests

• Spectrophotometry

• toxicologist

A drug or other chemical compound whose manufacture, distribution, possession, and use is regulated by the legal system

• chronic

• controlled substance

• toxin

• Chromatography

A substance that induces changes in mood, attitude, thought processes, and perceptions

• organic

• Drug

• Hallucinogen

• Stimulant

molecules that do not contain carbon.

• inorganic

• organic

• poison

• steroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Tests to identify specific substances by the color and morphology of the crystals formed when the substance is mixed with specific reagents

• Narcotic

• Microcrystalline tests

• Spectrophotometry

• Toxicologist