Stimulants
What are some common stimulants?
Methamphetamine, Cocaine, Nicotine, and Caffeine.
What are some common depressants?
Alcohol, Barbiturate's, Benzo's, Xanax, Valium, and Klonopin.
What are some common hallucinogens'?
Mushrooms, LSD, MDMA, Ketamine.
What are some common inhalants?
Glue, Gasoline, Cleaning solvents, and Aerosols.
What is a dissociative anesthetic?
A type of drug that can provide analgesia and anesthesia.
How do stimulants negatively affect the brain?
Decreases memory, learning, and cognitive functioning.
What is the most commonly used depressant?
Alcohol.
The hallucinogen found in certain mushrooms is called?
Psilocybin.
How do inhalants travel through the body?
Through the nose, mouth, the lungs, aveoli, and blood stream.
What are some dissociative anesthetics?
Ketamine and PCP.
How do stimulants negatively affect the body?
Loss of appetite, insomnia, nausea, abdominal cramps, and increased blood pressure.
Which of the following is NOT true about depressants?
a) Depressants decrease the activity of the central nervous system.
b) Depressants can lower your heart rate and pulse.
c) Depressants can increase your level of awareness.
d) Depressants can reduce anxiety in small doses.
C) Depressants can increase your level of awareness.
How do hallucinogens' negatively affect the body?
Dilated pupils, elevated heart rate, increased blood pressure, nausea and vomiting.
How do inhalants affect the body overtime?
Inhalants can cause liver and kidney damage.
What is the difference between a hallucinogenic and a dissociative substance?
Dissociative substances distort perception and produce feelings of detachment where as hallucinogens' provide more visual alteration.
What are the long-term affects of stimulant use on the heart?
High Blood Pressure, heart disease, and irregular heart beat.
How do depressants negatively affect the brain?
Affects concentration and coordination as well as slows down the messages between the brain and body.
How do hallucinogens' negatively affect the brain?
Interference with brain circuits, disruption in pre-frontal cortex functioning, Disturbance of Glutamate levels (Helps us regulate emotion and perception), and persistent psychosis.
How do inhalants affect the brain overtime?
Inhalants may cause memory loss and hearing loss overtime as well as depletion of brain cells and functioning.
What are the long-term effects of dissociative substance use?
Persistent speech problems, memory loss, depression, suicidal thoughts, anxiety, and social withdrawal.
What are the long-term affects of stimulant use on the brain?
Dopamine depletion, damage to neuron receptors, decrease in grey matter, changes to the frontal lobe.
Behavioral therapists combat alcoholism with a drug that does which of the following?
a) induces vomiting when combined with alcohol.
b) reduces cravings for alcohol.
c) makes people feel better without having to use alcohol.
d) All of the above.
A) Induces Vomiting when combined with alcohol.
What is a disorder caused by hallucinogen use?
Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder which is, a recurrent state of experiencing flashbacks, hallucinations or visual disturbances. They may occur soon after using the substance or a year later.
Liquids that vaporize at room temperature are called what?
a) volatile liquids
b) Nitrites
c) Aerosols
D) Gas Inhalants
E) None of the above.
A) Volatile Liquids.
How do dissociative substances affect the body and overall sanity?
These cause loss of connection between thoughts, memories, feelings, surroundings, and behavior.