Stimulant, Depressant, or Psychedelic/Hallucinogenic
PCP, LSD, and MDMA (ecstasy) are in this drug category.
What are psychedelic/hallucinogenic drugs?
These depressant drugs reduce pain by slowing down nerve messages going to the brain. They also reduce anxiety.
What are opioid drugs?
This is a period of negative feelings that occurs when the use of a substance is stopped.
What is withdrawal?
This drug is 1000 times stronger than heroin.
What is fentanyl?
Alcohol and drugs like Valium can cause blackouts, which also cause memory loss.
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Marijuana, and related drugs, such as hashish are in this category of drugs.
What are psychedelic/hallucinogenic drugs?
This is a state of severe confusion that someone may experience when he continues to use strong stimulants over a long period of time or in large doses.
What is delirium?
This is the state of being high from drug use.
What is intoxication?
These are the three of the four primary groups of psycheldelic and hallucinogenic drugs.
What are LSD psychedelics, amphetamine-related psychedelics, PCP psychedelics, marijuana and related drugs?
Opioid withdrawal is the most dangerous type of drug withdrawal.
False. Sedative-hypnotic withdrawal is the most dangerous type of drug withdrawal.
Opioids and sedative-hypnotics are in this category of drugs.
What are depressants?
This drug distorts the brain's ability to make sense of sights, sounds, and other senses or think clearly. it affects mood and emotions, increases heart rate and blood pressure, reduces appetite, may cause nausea, vomiting, stomach aches, and cause users to react quickly with less coordination.
What is LSD?
This word means a mental break and it is one of the psychological/mental states caused by stimulant use including delirium and intoxication.
What is psychosis?
These are three examples of stimulant withdrawal.
What are depression, physically agitated, emotionally agitated, irritable, anxious, tired, sleep excessively or have trouble sleeping, and possible thoughts of suicide?
Marijuana, like PCP, stays in the body longer than most drugs, because it is stored in fat cells.
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These energize the nervous system by making the nerves act more quickly than normal which speeds up a person's actions, senses, and thoughts.
What are stimulants?
This is when some drugs have similar effects like beer and wine. If a person drinks one beer plus one glass of wine, it has the same effect as drinking two beers. One plus one equals two.
What is additive effect?
This type of depressant drug is the most dangerous type of drug withdrawal.
What is sedative-hypnotic?
These are the two primary groups of depressants.
What are sedative-hypnotics and opioids?
(Refer to the picture of the Plain Brain/Brain after Ecstasy.) The brain scan on the right has fewer light areas and has a few dark sections. The dark sections show that the neurotransmitter activity is very high.
False. The dark sections show that the neurotransmitter activity is very low.
GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate), or liquid ecstasy, and Rohypnol, also known as Roofies, are in this drug category.
What are depressants?
This occurs when someone believes they see, hear, or touch something that does not exist.
What is a hallucination?
When certain drugs are taken in combination, they create an effect that is greater than simply increasing one of the drugs.
What is potentiation effect?
This drug is extremely unpredictable. It can produce mild euphoric effects with the appearance of alcohol intoxication. But with the same dose and without warning, it can also produce frightening hallucinations, disconnection between mind and body, and a break from reality in which the person becomes extremely agitated and violent. He has a high adrenaline level, is often scared, does not feel pain so he does not stop struggling or fighting even though he may have serious injuries.
What is PCP?
It is possible that even the smallest triggers, such as a sound, smell, or taste, could lead to a craving.
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