IC&RC Latest Update (2023/2024) Already Graded A

IC&RC Latest Update (2023/2024) Already Graded A Disorganization A state of impaired and inefficient emotional organization resulting from a person's inability to cope with internal conflicts and external reality. Downers Depressants, Barbiturates, tranquilizers, and alcohol, that depress the central nervous system, often used to bring on a more relaxed state of mind. Reduced rate of the pulse and breathing. Lower skin temp. Pupils constrict and are pin point size. Slurred speech. Muscles are relaxed and heavy sweating occurs. Drug Misuse Use of any drug (legal or illegal) for a medical or recreational purpose when other alternatives are available, practical or warranted, or when drug use-endangers either the user or others with whom he or she may interact. Tolerance A state of progressively decreased responsiveness to a drug. Dual-Diagnosis Generally used to describe the condition of mental patients who are also addicted to a mind altering drug. DUI Driving Under the Influence of alcohol or an illicit substance - any substance, licit or illicit, if it impairs the driving function. DWI Driving While Intoxicated. Enzyme Biological chemical, protein in nature and produced by living cells that can influence the rate of body processes. They can act independently of the cells that produce it. Ethanol Ethyl alcohol or the beverage type of alcohol, the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) A pattern of birth defects, cardiac abnormalities, and developmental retardation seen in some babies of alcohol abusing and/or alcoholic mothers. Fetal Drug Syndrome (FDS) A pattern of developmental birth defects characterized by low birth weight, growth retardation (Teratogenic in early pregnancy), premature delivery, or spontaneous abortion, and withdrawal symptoms for the neonate: seen in babies of drug abusing mothers. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that administers federal laws regarding the purity of food, the safety and effectiveness of drugs and the safety of cosmetics. Hallucination Perception of objects or experience of sensations with no real external cause. Can be auditory, visual, etc., delusion; false idea; false perception of objects with a compelling sense of their reality; objects so perceived; V. hallucinate; ADJ. hallucinatory Hallucinogen Chemical substance which can distort perceptions to induce delusions or hallucinations.