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Glencoe Making Life Choices Section 1 Drug Abuse Defined
Chapter 12 Drugs of Abuse
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Chapter Drugs of Abuse12
Section 1 Drug Abuse Defined
Section 2 Why Do People Abuse Drugs?
Section 3 Addiction
Section 4 Commonly Abused Drugs
Section 5 Drugs and Driving
Section 6 Kicking the Habit
Section 7 Helping Someone Else Kick the Habit
Contents
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Fact or Fiction?
Is this statement true or false? If you think it is false,
explain what is true.
• Unlike smoking tobacco, smoking marijuana does not harm health.
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Content Vocabulary
drug use
drug misuse
drug abuse
recreational drug use
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Drug abuse can damage a person’s health and ability to function effectively.
Official Definitions
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• The FDA’s definition of drug use may vary from the definitions of society.
Official Definitions
drug use
The taking of a drug for its medically intended purpose, and in the appropriate amount, frequency, strength, and manner
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• Drug misuse can lead to dependence.
Official Definitions
drug misuse
The taking of a drug for its medically intended purpose, but not in the appropriate amount, frequency, strength, or manner
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• Drug abuse can result in damage to a person’s health or ability to function.
Official Definitions
drug abuseThe deliberate taking of a drug for anything other than a medical purpose.
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Lawmakers have passed laws related to drug abuse. In our society, the use of mind-altering drugs is illegal.
Society’s Definition
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• Some individuals try to define drug use differently.• Some people may say that they engage in
recreational drug use.
Society’s Definition
recreational drug use
A term made up to describe their drug use, by people who claim their drug taking produces no harmful social or health effects
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• Some people who take mind-altering drugs call themselves drug users, not abusers.
• People who use drugs socially may see themselves as drug users, and not drug abusers.
• However, there is no such thing as mere “use” of a drug. Taking a drug for a purpose that is non-medical is drug abuse.
Society’s Definition
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• Taking a drug for its medically intended purpose but not in the right dose is called ____________.
drug misuse
The taking of a drug for its medically intended purpose, but not in the appropriate amount, frequency, strength, or manner
Section Review: Reviewing the Vocabulary
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• __________ is a term made up by people who claim their drug taking produces no harmful social or health effects.
recreational drug use
A term made up, to describe their drug use, by people who claim their drug taking produces no harmful social or health effects
Section Review: Reviewing the Vocabulary