Depressants
Slowed reactions, slurred speech, and decreased skill performance are associated with abuse of which drug?
What is alcohol?
Cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and other tobacco products deliver this highly addictive substance
What is nicotine?
The psychoactive ingredient in Marijuana
What is THC?
Category of psychedelic drugs that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input
What are hallucinogens?
alcohol use marked by tolerance, withdrawal, and a drive to continue problematic use.
Alcohol use disorder
Our brain's natural opiate
What are endorphins?
Nicotine reaches the brain within how many seconds?
What is 7 seconds?
Substance usually classified as a mild hallucinogen because it amplifies sensitivity to colors, sounds, tastes, and smells.
What is marihuana?
Emotional disturbances, suspiciousness, convulsions, cardiac arrest, or respiratory failure are negative effects of this substance?
What is cocaine?
Drugs that depress the central nervous system activity, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgment
What are barbiturates?
A powerful and addictive stimulant derived from a plant; produces temporarily increased alertness and euphoria.
What is cocaine?
a powerful hallucinogenic drug; also known as acid
What is LCD?
This substance is is both, a stimulant and a mild hallucinogen
What is ecstasy?
Associated drugs like morphine and heroin; this substances depress neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety.
Opiates
As cocaine enters the bloodstream quickly, producing a rush of euphoria that depletes the brain’s supply of the following neurotransmitters
What are dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine?
a powerfully addictive drug that stimulates the central nervous system, with accelerated body functions and associated energy and mood changes; over time, appears to reduce baseline dopamine levels.
What is methamphetamine?
Pleasurable effects of marijuana
What are Enhanced sensation, relief of pain, distortion of time, and relaxation
A drug the stimulates neural activity and is the parent drug for another highly addictive substance
What is amphetamine?
Substance that produce a Rush of euphoria, relief from pain but can has the negative after affect changing the brain's physiology and agonizing withdrawal effects
What is heroin?
As an amphetamine derivative, Ecstasy triggers dopamine release, but its major effect is releasing and blocking this neurotransmitter's reuptake
What is serotonin?
Which stimulant causes high energy and emotional elation, dehydration, and damage to serotonin producing neurons?
What is ecstasy?
Negative after effects of marijuana
Impaired learning and memory, increased risk of psychological disorders
an altered state of consciousness reported after a close brush with death (such as cardiac arrest); often similar to drug-induced hallucinations
What is a near death experience?