Medication Vocabulary

3. Drugs and medicines used to treat symptoms of an illness or cure, manage, or prevent a disease
6. Medications and other substances that change the way the body or brain functions
10. Occurrence when a person takes a drug again after deciding to stop
11. Drugs Substances that are against the law to use because they can be harmful to a persons health.
13. misuse Taking medication in a way that does not follow the medications instructions
16. program Plan that teaches people skills for dealing with peer pressure

1. Medications people can purchase without a doctors written order or prescription to treat an illness
2. Message that is shown in the media to support public health
4. abuse Continued use of a drug despite the negative or harmful outcomes
5. medications Medicines that people can only purchase with a doctors written order for the treatment of the specific illness or condition.
7. program Treatment of a drug that may involve detoxification
8. drugs Medications that can treat health conditions to improve another persons health and enhance wellness
9. Taking too much of a medication
12. living communities Alcohol and drug free living environments to reduce some of the temptation
13. abuse Intentionally taking a drug in a way other than its intended
14. addiction Complete dependence on a drug
15. effect Unpleasant or unwanted symptom that occurs from taking a medication