front 1 Addiction | back 1 The state of being compulsively committed to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma. |
front 2 Blood alcohol content | back 2 The percentage of alcohol in the bloodstream: under the laws of most U.S. states, a BAC of 0.08 or higher is the legal definition of intoxication. |
front 3 Cannabis | back 3 A plant of the genus Cannabis, most notably hemp, C. sativa: |
front 4 Carcinogen | back 4 Any substance or agent that tends to produce 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 A chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being. |
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 An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug. |
front 16 Potency | back 16 The state or quality of being potent. |
front 17 Prescription drug | back 17 A prescription drug is a pharmaceutical drug that is permitted to be dispensed only to those with a medical prescription. |
front 18 Psychedelic drug | back 18 Psychedelics are a subclass of hallucinogenic drugs whose primary effect is to trigger non-ordinary mental states and an apparent expansion of consciousness. |
front 19 Recovery | back 19 An act of recovering. |
front 20 Relapse | back 20 To fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.: |
front 21 Sedative | back 21 Tending to calm or soothe. |
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, of the nightshade family, especially one of those species, as N. tabacum, whose leaves are prepared for smoking or chewing or as snuff. |
front 24 Tolerance | back 24 A fair, respectful, and permissive attitude or policy toward people whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one’s own or from those of the majority; freedom from bigotry and from an insistence on conformity: |
front 25 Withdrawal | back 25 The act or process of ceasing to use an addictive drug. |