How medicine can help in our lives?
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MedicineHow medicine can help in our lives?
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Benefits of medicines
• Medicines are drugs that are used to treat or prevent disease or other conditions.
• Drugs are substances other than food that change the structure or function of the body or mind.
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How is medicine used
USE-appropriate use of drug or medicine. • Benefit• Preventing disease• Contracting specific disease• Pain relief • Neutralize the effects of
toxins.
• Abuse- intentionally taking medications for nonmedical reasons.
• Misuse- involves using a medicine in ways other than the intended use.
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OPIUM
MORPHINE
HEROIN OXYMORPHONE(Lortab)
CODEINE
HYDROCODONE(VICODIN)
THEBAINE
(PERCOCET) Oxycodone(OxyContin)
CLASSIFYING MAJOR OPIOID DRUGS
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$400 Peruvian farmers paid for 400 pounds of coca leaves which takes
one pound of cocaine
$1500 When refined cocaine leaves
Colombia for Mexico
$20,000 sold across the US border in New York
wholesale. $40,000 when bought on the street in small doses.
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Olive oil as a painkiller?
What similar chemicals does olive oil and pain killers have?What negative points does the article say about olive oil?What did you learn from the article?Do you agree with the article?
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Vocabulary
• Sobriety- living without alcohol.• Alcoholic-an addict who is dependent on alcohol.• Leukoplakia- thickened, white, leathery looking spots on the inside of the
mouth that develop into oral cancer.• Environmental tobacco smoke- air that has been contaminated by tobacco
smoke.• Nicotine- the addictive drug found in tobacco• Addictive drug-a substance that causes physiological or psychological
dependence. • Depressant- a drug that slows the central nervous system.• Stimulant- A drug that increases the action of the central nervous system, the
heart, an other organs.• Intoxication- The state in which the body is poisoned by alcohol or another
substance. Alters the brain and thinking.• Binge drinking - Drinking five or more alcoholic drinks at one sitting.