Drugs

Question 1

What are drugs?

Answer 1

Drugs are chemical substances that affect the way the body works

Question 2

What are the 2 types of drugs?

Answer 2

Medicinal drugs and Recreational drugs

Question 3

What are medicinal drugs?

Answer 3

Medicinal drugs are used in medicine, they are legal to use and perscribed by doctors.

Question 4

What are recreational drugs?

Answer 4

Recreational drugs are drugs people take for enjoyment, relaxation, or to help them stay awake.
Most are illegal and are never perscribed by doctors, they are usually harmful.

Question 5

What are examples of medicinal drugs

Answer 5

Paracetamol and many antibiotics

Question 6

What are examples of recreational drugs

Answer 6

Caffein, cannabis and cocaine

Question 7

What is alcohol?

Answer 7

Alcohol contains the recreational drug ethanol.

Question 8

What happens when you drink alcohol?

Answer 8

When you drink alcohol, ethanol is absorbed into your bloodstream, it eventually reaches your brain and affects your nervous system, slowing your body’s reaction

Question 9

What is in tobacco smoke?

Answer 9

Tar, Nicotine and carbon monoxide, all are harmful