Question

What is a drug?

What is the difference between medicines and recreational drugs ?
Give two examples of legal recreational drugs?
Give two example of illegal (against the law) drugs?
What is a depressant?
Give two effects that a depressant drug has on the body.
Give two long term effect of taking a depressant drug.
What is a stimulant?
Give one example of a legal stimulant and one example of an illegal stimulant.
What are the effects of taking a stimulant?

Answer 1

Drug- type of medication used to help pain or to get over something

#2- one is just for fun and one is to actually help you

#3- Alcohol Beverages or Cigarettes/ Tobacco

#4- Molly or Cannabis

#5- sleeping pills

#6- will make you depressed, sad

#7- I don’t know

#8- speed up the brain

#9- legal- nicotine, illegal- cocaine I think

#10- can make you feel more awake, alive

Answer 2

recreational - enjoyment i.e. weed, alcohol (legal)

shrooms, lsd (illegal)

liver or lung failure

stimulant- helps asthma and other things example. dexedrine

the effects of taking stimulants is loss of appetite, increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure and body temperature, interrupted sleep patterns, panic, hallucinations, and irritability.

also a drug is a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.