front 1 Addiction | back 1 the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity. |
front 2 Blood alcohol content | back 2 Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) refers to the percent of alcohol (ethyl alcohol or ethanol) in a person's blood stream. |
front 3 Cannabis | back 3 a plant of the genus Cannabis, most notably hemp |
front 4 Carcinogen | back 4 any substance or agent that tends to produce a cancer. |
front 5 Dependence | back 5 the state of relying on or needing someone or something for aid, support, or the like. |
front 6 Depressant | back 6 Medicine/Medical. having the quality of depressing or lowering the vital activities; sedative. |
front 7 Detoxification | back 7 Biochemistry. the metabolic process by which toxins are changed into less toxic or more readily excretable substances. |
front 8 Drug | back 8 Pharmacology. a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, |
front 9 Hallucinogen | back 9 a substance that produces hallucinations. |
front 10 Inhalant | back 10 a medicine, allergen, or other substance that is inhaled. |
front 11 Intoxication | back 11 inebriation; drunkenness. |
front 12 Naloxone/Narcan | back 12 an opioid antagonist, C19H21NO4, used to reverse the acute respiratory depression that occurs with opioid overdose. |
front 13 Nicotine | back 13 a colorless, oily, water-soluble, highly toxic, liquid alkaloid, C10H14N2, found in tobacco and valued as an insecticide. |
front 14 Opiate | back 14 Biochemistry, Pharmacology. a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain |
front 15 Overdose | back 15 OD |
front 16 Potency | back 16 the state or quality of being potent. |
front 17 Prescription drug | back 17 a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy |
front 18 Psychedelic drug | back 18 of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception |
front 19 Recovery | back 19 an act of recovering. |
front 20 Relapse | back 20 to fall or slip back into a former state, practice |
front 21 Sedative | back 21 tending to calm or sooth |
front 22 Stimulant | back 22 Physiology, Medicine/Medical. something that temporarily quickens some vital process or the functional activity of some organ or part |
front 23 Tobacco | back 23 any of several plants belonging to the genus Nicotiana |
front 24 Tolerance | back 24 a fair, respectful, and permissive attitude or policy toward people whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins |
front 25 Withdrawal | back 25 Pharmacology. the act or process of ceasing to use an addictive drug |