Addiction
the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity.
Blood alcohol content
Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) refers to the percent of alcohol (ethyl alcohol or ethanol) in a person's blood stream.
Cannabis
a plant of the genus Cannabis, most notably hemp
Carcinogen
any substance or agent that tends to produce a cancer.
Dependence
the state of relying on or needing someone or something for aid, support, or the like.
Depressant
Medicine/Medical. having the quality of depressing or lowering the vital activities; sedative.
Detoxification
Biochemistry. the metabolic process by which toxins are changed into less toxic or more readily excretable substances.
Drug
Pharmacology. a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention,
Hallucinogen
a substance that produces hallucinations.
Inhalant
a medicine, allergen, or other substance that is inhaled.
Intoxication
inebriation; drunkenness.
Naloxone/Narcan
an opioid antagonist, C19H21NO4, used to reverse the acute respiratory depression that occurs with opioid overdose.
Nicotine
a colorless, oily, water-soluble, highly toxic, liquid alkaloid, C10H14N2, found in tobacco and valued as an insecticide.
Opiate
Biochemistry, Pharmacology. a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain
Overdose
OD
Potency
the state or quality of being potent.
Prescription drug
a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy
Psychedelic drug
of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception
Recovery
an act of recovering.
Relapse
to fall or slip back into a former state, practice
Sedative
tending to calm or sooth
Stimulant
Physiology, Medicine/Medical. something that temporarily quickens some vital process or the functional activity of some organ or part
Tobacco
any of several plants belonging to the genus Nicotiana
Tolerance
a fair, respectful, and permissive attitude or policy toward people whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins
Withdrawal
Pharmacology. the act or process of ceasing to use an addictive drug