Unit 1.3
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- MEDICINE & DRUGS
- DRUGS
- Recreational, used for pleasure
- With-drawl symptoms
- Have to be tested over a long time
- Drugs change the chemical processes in your body
- Addiction is when your body becomes physically or mentally dependent on the drug
- DRUGS IN SPORTS
- Steroids
- Build muscle mass
- Increase in stamina
- Blood Doping
- Strong Pain Killers
- Ignore pains and causes more severe injuries
- Creates an unfair advantage
- Steroids
- LEGAL AND ILLEGAL DRUGS
- Recreational
- It is easy to become addicted
- It can affect the brain and the nervous system
- It can causes health problems
- It can cause adverse effects on the heart
- Some recreational drugs are legal, others are ilegal
- Medicinal Drugs
- Most medicinal drugs take years to develop
- Most medicinal drugs are legal and prescribed however scientist are now investigating medical uses of illegal dugs
- Recreational
- HOW EFFECTIVE ARE MEDICINES?
- Statins- lower 'bad' cholesterol
- Trials shown decrease-40% of heart disease and strokes
- Herbal Remedies
- Effectiveness checked in double blind trial
- St Johns Wort- depression
- Statins- lower 'bad' cholesterol
- EVOLVING NEW MEDICINES
- Drugs are tested to see if they work or if they are toxic and have bad side effects
- Thalidomide
- A sleeping pill that prevented morning sickness, it hadn't been tested fully and caused birth defects
- Placebo
- Double-Blind Trials
- Neither patient nor doctor knows about placebo
- Does not contain drug
- Double-Blind Trials
- Testing
- 1. Cells/tissues
- 2. Organs
- 3. Animals
- 4. Healthy volunteers
- 5. Patients
- DOES CANNABIS LEAD TO HARD DRUGS?
- Cannabis smoke contains chemicals that can cause mental illness, particularly teenagers
- Cannabis and many hard drugs are illegal and are obtained from a dealer
- DRUGS
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