Health Education - Final exam review
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Substance abuse - Correct answers✔✔Any unnecessary or improper use of chemical substances
for nonmedical purposes
Illegal drugs - Correct answers✔✔Chemical substances that people of any age may not lawfully
manufacture process or buy
Illicit drug use - Correct answers✔✔The use or sale of any substance that is illegal or otherwise
not permitted
Alter - Correct answers✔✔To make difference
Overdose - Correct answers✔✔A strong sometimes fatal reaction to taking a large amount of a
drug
Addiction - Correct answers✔✔Physiological or psychological dependence on a drug
Three areas of health that drug use affects - Correct answers✔✔1. Physical
2. Mental
3. Social
Consequences of drug use for different groups of people - Correct answers✔✔1. Tolerance
2. Addiction
,3. Dependence
Marijuana - Correct answers✔✔A drug is considered a "gateway drug" and may lead the user to
try other, more dangerous drugs
Paranoia - Correct answers✔✔Symptom the marijuana users often experience
Inhalants - Correct answers✔✔They are often prescribed by doctors for allergies, asthma, and
other medical conditions
Antibiotic-androgenic steroids - Correct answers✔✔A drug that can cause weight gain, acne,
high blood pressure, tumors, and liver and kidney failure
Intense - Correct answers✔✔Existing in an extreme degree
Psychoactive drugs - Correct answers✔✔Chemicals that affect the central nervous system and
alter activity in the brain
Designer drugs - Correct answers✔✔Synthetic drugs that are made to imitate the effects of other
drugs
Hallucinogens - Correct answers✔✔Drugs that alter moods, thoughts, and sense perceptions,
including vision, hearing, smell, and touch
Euphoria - Correct answers✔✔Feeling of intense well-being (high)
,Depressants - Correct answers✔✔A drug that slows the central nervous system
Stimulants - Correct answers✔✔Drugs that speed up and central nervous system
Opaites - Correct answers✔✔Obtainable only by prescription and are used to receive pain
Binge drinking - Correct answers✔✔Drinking five or more alcoholic drinks at one sitting
Alcohol poisoning - Correct answers✔✔A severe and potentially fatal physical reaction to an
alcohol overdose
Ethanol - Correct answers✔✔The type of alcohol in alcoholic beverages
Intoxication - Correct answers✔✔The state in which the body is poisoned by alcohol or another
substance, and the person's physical and mental control is significantly reduced
Fermentation - Correct answers✔✔The chemical action of yeast on sugars
Influences that the onset and intensity of alcohols effects - Correct answers✔✔1. Body size
2. Gender
3. Food
4. Rate of intake
5. Amount
6. Medicine
, Psychological dependence - Correct answers✔✔Dependence that causes people to think they
need a drug in order to feel good or function properly
Physiological dependence - Correct answers✔✔Dependence does an individual develop a
chemical need for a drug
Alcohol abuse - Correct answers✔✔Abuse is characterized by an excessive use of alcohol
Alcoholism - Correct answers✔✔A disease in which a person has a physical or psychological
dependence on drinks that contain alcohol
Isolation - Correct answers✔✔Being withdrawn or separated
Influences alcohol use - Correct answers✔✔1. Media
2. Peer pressure
3. Family
Risks teens face with who live in a household in which a family member abuses alcohol -
Correct answers✔✔1. Abuse
2. Economic hardship
3. Mental illness
4. Personal use
Benefits that you will enjoy throughout your life by remaining alcohol free - Correct
answers✔✔1. Healthy body
2. Healthy relationship
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Substance abuse - Correct answers✔✔Any unnecessary or improper use of chemical substances
for nonmedical purposes
Illegal drugs - Correct answers✔✔Chemical substances that people of any age may not lawfully
manufacture process or buy
Illicit drug use - Correct answers✔✔The use or sale of any substance that is illegal or otherwise
not permitted
Alter - Correct answers✔✔To make difference
Overdose - Correct answers✔✔A strong sometimes fatal reaction to taking a large amount of a
drug
Addiction - Correct answers✔✔Physiological or psychological dependence on a drug
Three areas of health that drug use affects - Correct answers✔✔1. Physical
2. Mental
3. Social
Consequences of drug use for different groups of people - Correct answers✔✔1. Tolerance
2. Addiction
,3. Dependence
Marijuana - Correct answers✔✔A drug is considered a "gateway drug" and may lead the user to
try other, more dangerous drugs
Paranoia - Correct answers✔✔Symptom the marijuana users often experience
Inhalants - Correct answers✔✔They are often prescribed by doctors for allergies, asthma, and
other medical conditions
Antibiotic-androgenic steroids - Correct answers✔✔A drug that can cause weight gain, acne,
high blood pressure, tumors, and liver and kidney failure
Intense - Correct answers✔✔Existing in an extreme degree
Psychoactive drugs - Correct answers✔✔Chemicals that affect the central nervous system and
alter activity in the brain
Designer drugs - Correct answers✔✔Synthetic drugs that are made to imitate the effects of other
drugs
Hallucinogens - Correct answers✔✔Drugs that alter moods, thoughts, and sense perceptions,
including vision, hearing, smell, and touch
Euphoria - Correct answers✔✔Feeling of intense well-being (high)
,Depressants - Correct answers✔✔A drug that slows the central nervous system
Stimulants - Correct answers✔✔Drugs that speed up and central nervous system
Opaites - Correct answers✔✔Obtainable only by prescription and are used to receive pain
Binge drinking - Correct answers✔✔Drinking five or more alcoholic drinks at one sitting
Alcohol poisoning - Correct answers✔✔A severe and potentially fatal physical reaction to an
alcohol overdose
Ethanol - Correct answers✔✔The type of alcohol in alcoholic beverages
Intoxication - Correct answers✔✔The state in which the body is poisoned by alcohol or another
substance, and the person's physical and mental control is significantly reduced
Fermentation - Correct answers✔✔The chemical action of yeast on sugars
Influences that the onset and intensity of alcohols effects - Correct answers✔✔1. Body size
2. Gender
3. Food
4. Rate of intake
5. Amount
6. Medicine
, Psychological dependence - Correct answers✔✔Dependence that causes people to think they
need a drug in order to feel good or function properly
Physiological dependence - Correct answers✔✔Dependence does an individual develop a
chemical need for a drug
Alcohol abuse - Correct answers✔✔Abuse is characterized by an excessive use of alcohol
Alcoholism - Correct answers✔✔A disease in which a person has a physical or psychological
dependence on drinks that contain alcohol
Isolation - Correct answers✔✔Being withdrawn or separated
Influences alcohol use - Correct answers✔✔1. Media
2. Peer pressure
3. Family
Risks teens face with who live in a household in which a family member abuses alcohol -
Correct answers✔✔1. Abuse
2. Economic hardship
3. Mental illness
4. Personal use
Benefits that you will enjoy throughout your life by remaining alcohol free - Correct
answers✔✔1. Healthy body
2. Healthy relationship
