History
This country is where the first traces of wine were found.
What is China?
This law banned opium dens in San Francisco.
What is the San Francisco Ordinance (1875)
The four key stages of pharmacokinetics, they are often abbreviated as ADME.
What are absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion?
These act as the neuron's antennae, receiving signals from other neurons.
What are dendrites?
In this type of biological response to repeated drug dosing, the body instructs the neuron to produce more receptors.
What is up-regulation?
These leaves were chewed in East Africa for a quick burst of energy.
What is khat?
This law instituted a scheduling system for psychoactive drugs in the United States in the 1970s.
What is the Controlled Substances Act?
This is the body system that distributes most drugs throughout the body.
What is the circulatory system?
This long tail segment of neuron is where the action potential travels towards the terminal buttons.
What is the axon?
In this kind of testing, a drug is tested on living animals.
What is in-vivo?
This was the Incas preferred form of energy.
What is coca?
This law required accurate drug labelling... and banned Kinder Eggs.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This is how most drugs are excreted from the body.
What is urine?
Vesicles in these structures contain neurotransmitters that are released when a neuron is stimulated.
What are terminal buttons?
This type of effect is seen when someone thinks they are receiving a drug therapy, but are actually receiving a sugar pill.
What is the placebo effect?
The Scythians used this substances to put the fun in funerals.
What is cannabis?
This governor was responsible for the most draconian anti-drug laws in the United States in the 1900s.
Who is Nelson Rockefeller?
This term, meaning 'fat-loving', refers to a drug's preference for fatty environments, and is important for bioavailability.
What is lipophilicity?
These are the ions that flood into a neuron, generating a pulse of positive charge called an action potential.
What are sodium ions?
This enzyme helps break down acetycholine, but can't break down deadly VX gas.
What is acetylchloinesterase?
This was known as the joy plant to ancient Anatolians.
What is the opium poppy?
This man led a crusade against cannabis and developed propaganda demonising its use.
Who is Harry Anslinger?
This type of metabolic reaction uses water to 'cut' drug molecules apart.
What is hydrolysis?
This type of receptor is activated by a neurotransmitter, but does not directly open an ion channel or pore.
What is a metabotropic receptor?
This is a more complex name for a metabotropic ion receptor.
What is a G-protein coupled receptor?