Drugs

Question 1

What is a drug

Answer 1

Substance which affects the way the body or mind functions.

Question 2

How smoking when pregnant affects the baby

Answer 2

Smoking can deprive the foetus of oxygen and lead to a low birth weight

Question 3

What is the addictive substance in a cigarette

Answer 3

Nicotine

Question 4

What dangerous substances are found in cigarettes

Answer 4

Nicotine>addictive
Carcinogens>cancer causing
Tar>coats lungs
Carbon monoxide>reduces oxygen carried within blood

Question 5

How does smoking affect the ciliated cells

Answer 5

Cells become damaged causing smokers to cough regularly

Question 6

How drugs are tested before they’re prescribed to patients

Answer 6

Tested in labs on cells and tissues.
On animals and human volunteers.
In clinical trials with a small dose

Question 7

How does alcohol affect body and long term effects

Answer 7

Alcohol affects the nervous system and slows reaction time

Long term effects are liver and brain damage

Question 8

Withdrawal symptoms and why people suffer these

Answer 8

Experiences when a individual stops taking drugs. These are suffered as the body becomes dependent on the drug.

Question 9

What was thalidomide developed to treat, what side effects were there and what’s it used to treat now

Answer 9

Developed as sleeping pill but not tested during pregnancy lead to offspring with limb abnormalities. Now treated for leprosy

Question 10

How can painkillers help during infection

Answer 10

Painkillers treat symptoms but do not kill the pathogen