General Information
Stimulants
Depressants
Sedative-Hypnotics
Affects on the Brain
100

Addictive drugs are called this because they can change a person’s mood or feelings.

What is psychoactive or mood-altering ?

100

The state of being high.

What is intoxicated?

100

High doses of depressants can lead to this.

What is death?

100

A sedative drug makes a person calmer, reduces anxiety and lowers this.

What is stimulation of the senses?

100

The more a person uses a drug, the greater chance there is of this.

What is long-term damage to the brain?


200

These energize the nervous system by making the nerves act more quickly than normal.

What are stimulants?

200

This is a state of severe confusion caused by stimulants.

What is delirium?


200

Combining two or more depressants create an effect than just increasing the dose of one. This is called.

What is "an additive effect"?

200

A hypnotic drug is commonly called this.

What is a sleeping pill?

200

It is possible that even the smallest triggers, such as a sound, smell, or taste, could lead to this.

What is a craving?

300

These drugs primarily affect the user’s thinking and senses.

What are Psychedelic and Hallucinogenic Drugs?

300

This occurs when someone believes he or she sees, hears, or touches something that does not exist.

What is an hallucination?

300

These slow down the nerve messages going to the brain.

What are opioids?

300

At high doses sedative-hypnotic drugs seriously slow mental and physical _________ ________.

What is reaction time?

300

This part of the brain is responsible for memory and emotions.

What is the amygdala?

400

These drugs slow the nervous system, which causes behavior and thoughts to slow as well.

What are depressants?

400

This is when minds trick you into believing that a real object is actually something else.

What is an illusion?


400

Opioids cause this and make it hard to concentrate.

What is drowsiness?

400

What is the name of the sedative-hypnotic drug is called the date rape drug?

What is GHB? or What is Rohypnol?

400

This important brain chemical regulates mood, emotion, learning, memory, sleep, and pain.

What is seratonin?


500

When certain drugs are taken in combination, they create an effect that is greater than simply increasing one of the drugs, this is called

What is the potentiation effect?

500

This is temporarily losing touch with reality because of the drug.

What is psychosis?

500

This is 1000 times stronger than heroin.

What is fentanyl?

500

Name two common sedatives.

What are Valium and Xanax? 

500

A person who uses a drug over a long period can expect to have a long period of this before the brain returns to normal functioning.

What is recovery?

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