MedicineHow medicine can help in our lives?

Benefits of medicines

• Medicines are drugs that are used to treat or prevent disease or other conditions.

• Drugs are substances other than food that change the structure or function of the body or mind.

How is medicine used

USE-appropriate use of drug or medicine. • Benefit• Preventing disease• Contracting specific disease• Pain relief • Neutralize the effects of

toxins.

• Abuse- intentionally taking medications for nonmedical reasons.

• Misuse- involves using a medicine in ways other than the intended use.

OPIUM

MORPHINE

HEROIN OXYMORPHONE(Lortab)

CODEINE

HYDROCODONE(VICODIN)

THEBAINE

(PERCOCET) Oxycodone(OxyContin)

CLASSIFYING MAJOR OPIOID DRUGS

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$400 Peruvian farmers paid for 400 pounds of coca leaves which takes

one pound of cocaine

$1500 When refined cocaine leaves

Colombia for Mexico

$20,000 sold across the US border in New York

wholesale. $40,000 when bought on the street in small doses.

Olive oil as a painkiller?

What similar chemicals does olive oil and pain killers have?What negative points does the article say about olive oil?What did you learn from the article?Do you agree with the article?

Vocabulary

• Sobriety- living without alcohol.• Alcoholic-an addict who is dependent on alcohol.• Leukoplakia- thickened, white, leathery looking spots on the inside of the

mouth that develop into oral cancer.• Environmental tobacco smoke- air that has been contaminated by tobacco

smoke.• Nicotine- the addictive drug found in tobacco• Addictive drug-a substance that causes physiological or psychological

dependence. • Depressant- a drug that slows the central nervous system.• Stimulant- A drug that increases the action of the central nervous system, the

heart, an other organs.• Intoxication- The state in which the body is poisoned by alcohol or another

substance. Alters the brain and thinking.• Binge drinking - Drinking five or more alcoholic drinks at one sitting.