Through this method chemicals reach the brain more quickly than any other method of substance use.
What is Inhaling
100
A growing technique for high-potency marijuana that greatly
increases the THC content from a few percent to as high as 30% or more.
What is Sinsemilla
100
Withdrawal from this chemical can be fatal.
What is Alcohol
100
This term is used to describe Hallucinogens effecting the brain by interfering with various neurotransmitters and causing an overlap of the senses to occur.
What is Synesthesia
100
This drug was made popular by its use as a topical anesthetic and as a medication promoted by Sigmund Freud.
What is Cocaine
200
This process refers to the irreversible removal of drug from the body.
What is Drug elimination
200
Cocaine that can be smoked as opposed to cocaine hydrochloride that is snorted or injected.
What is Freebase
200
This is often considered the strongest indicator of substance dependence in an individual.
What is withdrawal symptoms
200
A Psychoactive drug that mimics or facilitates the effects of neurotransmitters (e.g. dopamine).
What is an Agonist
200
A neurotransmitter that coordinates fine motor skills, signals the reward/reinforcement center, and can overstimulate the brain’s fright center causing paranoia.
What is Dopamine
300
"Skin Popping" is another name for this method of drug use.
What is Subcutaneous
300
This is essential to person's recovery from an addiction or abuse disorder
What is admitting there is a problem.
300
A group of emotional and physical symptoms that appear after major withdrawal symptoms have abated.
What is Post–Acute Withdrawal Symptoms (PAWS)
300
A small cactus found in northern Mexico and the American
southwest that contains the hallucinogen mescaline.
What is the Peyote cactus
300
Also called “Belushi rocks” or “hot rocks,” combining freebase
cocaine with smokable tar heroin.
What is Speedball
400
This filtering mechanism, of the capillaries that carry blood the brain and spinal cord tissue, blocks the passage of certain substances.
What is the Blood-brain barrier.
400
June 9, 1980, after days of overindulging on freebasing cocaine, this entertainer poured 151-proof rum all over himself and lit himself on fire.
Who is Richard Pryor.
400
One of the most common counseling techniques used in working with individuals with substance use/abuse issues.
What is Motivational Interviewing
400
The psychedelic is lysergic acid diethylamide.
What is LSD
400
A side effect of long-term or high-dose cocaine and amphetamine use that feels like hundreds of tiny bugs are crawling under the skin (“coke bugs”).
What is Formication
500
It can take as long as 1-2 days for the effects of a substance to reach the brain through this delivery method.
What is Contact absorption
500
This effect is basically the opposite of drug tolerance.
What is Drug sensitization
500
For this group of drugs, withdrawal symptoms can last anywhere from one week to one month.
What is Opiates.
500
Members of this PSYCHEDELIC “HEXING HERBS” plant family include belladonna, henbane, mandrake root, and ________ weed or datura (thornapple).
What is Jimson
500
This stimulant constricts blood vessels in the brain making it valuable as a treatment for headaches, especially migraine headaches.