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Chapter 16
Medicine and illegal drugs
1. Which of the following statements
gives the correct relationship between
drugs and medicine?
A. a drug is a type of medicine
B. a medicine is not a drug
C. all drugs can be used as medicines
D. some drugs can be used as
medicines
1. Answer
D. some drugs can be used as
medicines
2. Which statement about
prescription drugs is NOT true?
A. you need a doctor’s approval to
use prescription drugs
B. prescription drugs should never be
shared with another person
C. people can’t get addicted to
prescription drugs
D. prescription drugs are usually
stronger than over the counter drugs
2. Answer
C
3. When a person’s body needs a
drug in order to function properly,
the person has a
A. physical dependence
B. side effect
C. drug prescription
D. hallucination
3. Answer
A
4. Heroin is a kind of
A stimulant
B. depressant
C. opiate
D. hallucinogen
4. Answer
C. opiate
5. Which of the following is a good
reason to avoid drugs?
A. to stay healthy
B. to stay out of trouble
C. to save money
D. all of the above
6. A good person to ask for help
with a drug problem is
A. teacher
B. school counselor
C. parent
D. all of the above
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What are drugs?
Drugs as medicine
Abuse & Addiction
Stimulants & Depressants
Marijuana
Opiates
Hallucinogens & Inhalants
Designer Drugs
Drugs as Medicine
Medicine is a drug that is used to cure,
prevent or treat illness or discomfort
Prescription/Over the counter
Side effect is any effect that is caused by a
drug and that is different from the drug’s
intended effect
commercial for drugs side effects YouTube
Abuse & Addiction
Drug addiction is the uncontrollable use of
a drug
Continued use causes dependence –
needing the drug in order to function
Physical dependence – body’s chemical
need for a drug
Psychological dependence – emotional or
mental need for a drug
Harms relationships, school problems and
very costly
Let’s Be Wise
Create a piece of artwork –
Title: This is Worth More Than Drugs
Choose a shape and write or draw
what you value more than drug,
alcohol, tobacco use
Stimulants & Depressants
Stimulant is any drug that increases the body’s
activity.
Heart rate and breathing speed up
Blood pressure increases
Cocaine and crack - most widely used and abused
drug – powerful stimulant, comes from a plant
Methamphetamine – synthetically made or
produced in a lab
Depressants – decrease activity in the body,
lowered heart rate and breathing, sleeping pills
Rohypnol – sleepiness, slurred speech, impaired
judgment,
Marijuana
Most popular drug of abuse
Comes from a plant
Long-term effects-decreases person’s
ability to think and concentrate
Can cause many of the same effects
as smoking cigarettes
Opiates
Drug that is produced from the milk of the
opium poppy
Extremely addictive, gives a strong high
Cause addiction to occur quickly, develop a
strong tolerance
Heroin is a type of opiate made from the
morphine in the opium plant
Can be smoked, inhaled or the most
dangerous form, injected
Hallucinogens and Inhalants
Hallucinogens – any drug that causes
a person to hallucinate
Afterimage
Flashback – hallucinogen’s effects
reoccur long after the drug was originally
taken
Inhalants – any drug that is inhaled and
absorbed into the bloodstream through
the lungs
Designer drugs
A drug that is produced by making a small
chemical change to a drug that already
exists
Dangerous because they have new and
unpredictable effects all on their own
Ecstasy-increased sensitivity to touch,
hallucinate, tingling, increase energy, death
GHB, increased energy, lose
consciousness, stop breathing, death
Ketamine- sense of disociation, separation
from reality,
Skits
Hamburger bun method
4-8 line skit