Health Quiz - Ch. 23 Les Drogos

T or F: Medicines are substances that can alter a person's mind and/ or body

• True

• False

T or F: There are 2 classifications of medicines

• True

• False

T or F: Vaccines are an example of disease prevention

• True

• False

T or False: Antibiotics help to fight pathogens

• True

• False

T or F: Recreational drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, or methamphetamine are used without medical justification for its psychoactive effect

• True

• False

T or F: Psychoactive drugs contain chemicals that affect the CNS and alter activity in the brain, change the function of the CNS

• True

• False

Most commonly used pain reliever; range from relatively mild medicines, such as aspirin, to strong narcotics, such as opium-based morphine and codeine.

• Withdrawl

• Analgestics

• Depressant

• Club Drug

The interaction of two or more medicines that results in a greater effect than when each medicine is taken alone.

• Opioid

• Barbituates

• Club Drug

• Synergistic Effect

When a person stops using a medicine on which he or she has become physiologically dependent.  Symptoms: severe headaches, vomiting, chills and cramps.

• Withdrawal

• Depressant

• Steroids

• Stimulant

Body becomes used to the effects of a medicine.  The body requires increasingly larger doses to produce desired effect.

• Depressant

• Stimulant

• Tolerance

• Synergistic Effect