Addiction

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.

Blood alcohol content

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.

Cannabis

1. any of the various parts of the plant, especially the leaves and flowering tops of C. sativa , from which hashish, marijuana, bhang, and similar mildly euphorigenic and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared:

Dependence

the state of being psychologically or physiologically dependent on a drug after a prolonged period of use.

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.

Hallucinogen

a substance that produces hallucinations.

Inhalant

any volatile substance, as nitrous oxide, butyl nitrite, toluene, gasoline, or paint thinner, capable of being inhaled, sometimes abused for its intoxicating effect.

Intoxication

overpowering exhilaration or excitement of the mind or emotions.

Naloxone/Narcan

an opioid antagonist, C 19 H 21 NO 4 , used to reverse the acute respiratory depression that occurs with opioid overdose.

Nicotine

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.

Opiate

Biochemistry, Pharmacology. a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain:

Overdose

to have or experience an excessive amount or degree of something.

Potency

having or exercising great power or influence:

Prescription drug

a drug that gets prescribed for different reasons revolving around health

Psychedelic drug

psychedelics are a subclass of hallucinogenic drugs whose primary effect is to trigger non-ordinary mental states and a perceived "expansion of consciousness".

Recovery

restoration or return to any former and better state or condition

Relapse

to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.:

Stimulant

Physiology, Medicine/Medical. temporarily quickening some vital process or functional activity.

Tobacco

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.

Tolerance

the power of enduring or resisting the action of a drug, poison, pollutant, or biological stressor, as in drug tolerance:

Withdrawal

Pharmacology. the act or process of ceasing to use an addictive drug.