Chapter 7
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23 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Addiction | an acquired physical or psychological dependence on a drug. |
| Autopsy | a postmortem examination of organs and tissues to determine the cause of death. |
| Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) | an agency of the federal government responsible for enforcing laws covering statutes of addictive drugs. |
| Compounding | the combination and mixing of drugs and chemicals. |
| Controlled Substances Act of 1970 | a federal statute that regulates the manufacture and distribution of the drugs that are capable of causing dependency. |
| Coroner | a public health officer who holds an investigation (inquest) if a person's death is from an unknown or violent cause. |
| Data | statistics, figures, or information. |
| Dispensing | distribution, delivery, disposing, or giving away a drug, medicine, prescription, or chemical. |
| Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) | a division of the Department of Justice that enforces the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. |
| Employee Assistance Program (EAP) | a management-financed, confidential counseling and referral service designed to help employees and/or their family members assess a problem such as alcoholism. |
| Food and Drug Administration (FDA) | an agency within the Department of |
| Health and Human Services | that ultimately enforces drug sales and distribution. |
| Forensic medicine | branch of medicine concerned with the law, especially criminal law. |
| Habituation | the development of an emotional dependence on a drug due to repeated use. |
| Inquest | an investigation held by a public official, such as a coroner, to determine the cause of death. |
| Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) | documentation of chemical wastes; also provides specific information on handling and disposing of chemicals safely. |
| Morbidity rate | the rate of sick people or cases of disease in relationship to a specific population. |
| Mortality rate | death rate. |
| Postmortem | after death. |
| Public duties | responsibilities the physician owes to the public. |
| Restraining or protective order | court order that prohibits an abuser from coming into contact with the victim. |
| Retailing | the legal act of selling or trading a drug, medicine, prescription, or chemical. |
| Vital statistics | major events or facts from a person's life, such as live births, deaths, induced termination of pregnancy, and marriages. |
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