B1 Chapter 3- Medicine + Drugs

Key words
1. Placebo- A substance that looks the same as the real drug, however doesn't contain the active substance
2. A drug- A substance that changes the brain and/or how your body works
3. Double- blind trail- A drug trail when neither the doctor nor the patient knows who has the real drug and who has the placebo
4. Medical- A drug made for medical purposes
5. Recreational- Taken for pleasure
6. Thalidomide- a drug given to pregnant women in the late 50's and early 60's to help with morning fever. However it caused the children to be born with missing limbs
7. Gateway drug- A drug that eventually satisfy the consumers needs. It acts as a gateway to harder more dangerous drugs
8. Performance enhancing- A drug taken by athletes to help them perform to higher standards
Drug use
1. Drugs can be taken for medical purposes or recreational purposes
2. Thalidomide was a drug not tested properly as they did not realise it would cause babies to be born with missing limbs
  1. However thalidomide can be used to cure some cancers and can also cure leprosy is LED's
3. Drugs which people use for recreation all affect the nervous system but mainly the brain. The legal drugs cause more health problems than the illegal drugs
Gateway drugs
1. These are drugs that eventually stops satisfying the consumer, leading to harder drugs
2. Marijuana is considered a gateway drug as people begin using cannabis but after a while get bored and begin using harder drugs
Drugs in sport
1. The main drugs used in sport are performance enhancing drugs such as steroids
2. People such as Lance Armstrong used performance enhancing drugs to win gold medals

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