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Drugs Flashcards

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What are statins

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Drugs that lower cholesterol by stopping production from the liver

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2
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What does using statins decrease

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Risk of heart disease

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What does a drug do

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Alter the way the body works

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4
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One example of a legal drug

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Alcohol

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5
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Is the health impact greater from legal or illegal drugs and why

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Legal

Millions of people take these so health impacts are greater

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What are 3 examples of illegal drugs

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Cocaine
Ecstasy
Heroin

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What do illegal drugs

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Affect nervous system

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What is dependant addiction

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When someone can’t function without e drug and more is needed each time to get the same effects

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9
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Where would addicts turn to fund drug habit

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Crime

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10
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What 3 are addicts most likely to get

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STD’s
Mental health problems
Physical both problems

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What are the 3 risks of cannabis

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Triggers mental illness and can lead to excessive disorders such as schizophrenia with a lot of use

High risk of depression

Thought to be a gateway drug

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What are anabolic steroids used for

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Muscle growth in a quick time

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Who uses anabolic steroids

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Sprinters

Body builders

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What are the 3 risks of using anabolic steroids

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Behavioural change
Sexual characteristic change
Stroke and heart attack

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Why might body builders need anabolic steroids

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Lift higher weights - more strength

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16
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Why might sprinters need anabolic steroids

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Leg muscle

17
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Why may it be difficult to test for performing enhancing drugs

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Se drugs are naturally in the body and levels of these can vary

18
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Why migrant athletes need to be careful when taking normal medication

A

Some medicines can contain banned substances

19
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A good medicine is what

ESSS

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Effective
Stable
Safe
Successfully taken in and removed from the body

20
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What is a placebo

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Pill usually composed of sugars that doesn’t contain the actual drug

21
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What is a blind trial

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Where the patients don’t know what pill they’re getting

22
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What is a double blind trial

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Neither doctor nor patient knows who has the real drug

23
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What is the order of testing a drug

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Computer model
Tested on Cells, Tissues and Organs in a lab
Animal testing
Human trial on healthy patients usually

24
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What was Thalidomide used for in the 1950’s

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Morning sickness

25
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How long does it take to develop a new drug

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12 years

26
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What is the cost of developing a new drug

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£350 million

27
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When was Thalidomide first tested on pregnant animals

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1968

28
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What was the big negative of using thalidomide to treat morning sickness

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Affected foetuses which were born with severe limb deformities

29
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What is thalidomide now used for

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Treat bone cancers

Treat leprosy

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