1. Drugs and medicine

2. Medicines
Medicines- Drugs that are used to treat or prevent disease or other condition
Drugs- substances other than food that change the structure or function of the body or mind
All medicines are drugs, but not all drugs are medicines

3. Medicine categories Help prevent disease
Fight pathogens, or infectious agents that cause disease
Antivirals and antifungals
Relieve pain
Analgesics
Help maintain or restore health and regulate the body’s systems
Allergy medicine, body regulating (insulin, etc), antidepressant and antipsychotic medications, cancer treatments

4. Side effects
Side effects- reactions to medicine other than the one intended
Additive interaction- when medicines work together in a positive way
Synergystic effect- interaction of 2 or more medicines results in a greater effect than when taken alone
Antagonistic effect- when the effect of one medicine is canceled or reduced when taken with another medicine

5. Substance abuse
Substance abuse is any unnecessary or improper use of chemical substances for nonmedical purposes
Illicit drug use- the use or sale of any substance that is illegal or otherwise not permitted
Physical consequences (overdose
Mental/emotional consequences
Social consequences

6. Addiction cycle
Tolerance- the body needs more and more for the same effect
Psychological dependence- person believes that a drug is needed in order to feel good or to function normally
Physiological dependence- condition in which the user has a chemical need
Addiction- physiological or psychological dependence

7. Marijuana Indian hemp plant cannabis
Raises dopamine…pleasurable feeling
Individual who uses is 17 times more likely to use cocaine
Contains MORE cancer causing chemical than tobacco
Related to infertility

8. Inhalants
Substances whose fumes are sniffed and inhaled to achieve a mind-altering effect
Goes immediately to the brain
Extremely dangerous

9. Psychoactive drugs
Chemicals that affect the central nervous system and alter activity in the brain
Classifications
Stimulants
Depressants
Narcotics
Hallucinogens

10. Stimulants Drugs that speed up the central nervous system Caffeine
Nicotine
Cocaine
Crack
Amphetamines
Methamphetamines

11. depressants Drugs that tend to slow down the central nervous system
Barbituates
Tranquilizers
Rohypnol
GHB

12. Hallucinogens
Drugs that alter moods, thoughts, and sense perceptions including vision, hearing, smell and touch
PCP
LSD
Ketamine

13. Designer drugs Ecstasy Several hundred times stronger
than the drug they are meant to imitate

14. Drug prevention School Efforts Community Efforts
Alternatives to Drug and Substance Use

15. Treatment Outpatient Drug-Free Treatment Short-Term Treatment
Maintenance Therapy
Therapeutic Communities