The four major drug categories.
What are depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, anabolic steroids?
Substances ordered by a licensed medical professional.
What are prescription drugs?
The plant that contains nicotine.
What is the tobacco plant?
This part of the brain contains the brain’s reward circuits.
What is the midbrain (limbic system)?
This is the street name for Rohypnol, also commonly known as 'date rape drug'
What are 'roofies'?
The drug classification of cocaine.
What is stimulant?
A loss of memory without passing out after using a drug.
What is a blackout?
The plant that marijuana comes from.
What is cannabis sativa?
This part of the brain controls basic functions critical to life, such as heart rate, breathing, and sleeping
What is the brain stem?
This is the name of the class of drug that are typically used as painkillers.
What are narcotics/opioids?
Drug classification of marijuana.
What is depressant?
The first drug used recreationally that makes it easier to abuse other drugs.
What is gateway drug?
The plant heroin (and other opioids) come from.
What is the opium poppy?
This part of the brain plays a major role in balance and voluntary motor skills.
What is the cerebellum?
Common street names for this drug are sherm, wet, angel dust.
What is PCP?
Drug classification of PCP.
What are psychedelics/hallucinogens?
Needing more and more of the drug to get the same effect.
What is tolerance?
The plan cocaine comes from.
What is the coca plant?
This is the structure in the limbic system that is involved with emotions.
What is the amygdala?
This drug was commonly called 'speed' in the past.
What is methamphetamine?
The drug classification of nicotine when in small doses.
What is a stimulant?
A group of drugs that produce sensory distortions.
What are hallucinogens?
Where methamphetamine comes from.
What is illegal labs and various mixtures of chemicals?
The person's injury led to the discovery of the function the frontal lobe serves.
Who is Phineas Gage?
This drug is commonly referred to as the "love" drug.
What is ecstasy?