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 Blood Alcohol Content, or BAC, refers to the percentage of alcohol in a person's bloodstream, and can be measured within 30-70 minutes after drinking. |
front 3 Cannabis | back 3
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front 4 Dependence | back 4 the state of being psychologically or physiologically dependent on a drug after a prolonged period of use. |
front 5 Depressant | back 5 Medicine/Medical. having the quality of depressing or lowering the vital activities; sedative. |
front 6 Detoxification | back 6 Biochemistry. the metabolic process by which toxins are changed into less toxic or more readily excretable substances. |
front 7 Hallucinogen | back 7 a substance that produces hallucinations. |
front 8 Inhalant | back 8 any volatile substance, as nitrous oxide, butyl nitrite, toluene, gasoline, or paint thinner, capable of being inhaled, sometimes abused for its intoxicating effect. |
front 9 Intoxication | back 9 overpowering exhilaration or excitement of the mind or emotions. |
front 10 Naloxone/Narcan | back 10 an opioid antagonist, C 19 H 21 NO 4 , used to reverse the acute respiratory depression that occurs with opioid overdose. |
front 11 Nicotine | back 11 a colorless, oily, water-soluble, highly toxic, liquid alkaloid, C 1 0 H 1 4 N 2 , found in tobacco and valued as an insecticide. |
front 12 Opiate | back 12 Biochemistry, Pharmacology. a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain: |
front 13 Overdose | back 13 to have or experience an excessive amount or degree of something. |
front 14 Potency | back 14 having or exercising great power or influence: |
front 15 Prescription drug | back 15 a drug that gets prescribed for different reasons revolving around health |
front 16 Psychedelic drug | back 16 psychedelics are a subclass of hallucinogenic drugs whose primary effect is to trigger non-ordinary mental states and a perceived "expansion of consciousness". |
front 17 Recovery | back 17 restoration or return to any former and better state or condition |
front 18 Relapse | back 18 to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.: |
front 19 Stimulant | back 19 Physiology, Medicine/Medical. temporarily quickening some vital process or functional activity. |
front 20 Tobacco | back 20 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 21 Tolerance | back 21 the power of enduring or resisting the action of a drug, poison, pollutant, or biological stressor, as in drug tolerance: |
front 22 Withdrawal | back 22 Pharmacology. the act or process of ceasing to use an addictive drug. |