Drug Classifications
Society's Response to Drug Use
Basic Drug Terminology and Concepts
Dynamics of Drug Abuse
Random Drug Questions
100
Psychoactive drugs that stimulate the function of the central nervous system.
What are Stimulants?
100
First stage of prevention of drug use
What is Primary prevention?
100
The Route of Administration that uses a needle.
What is an Injection
100
The influence others have on us by example.
What is modeling?
100
The organ that metabolized drugs.
What is the liver?
200
Psychoactive drugs that are capable of producing distortions of reality.
What are Hallucinogens?
200
An organized process that involves encouraging a chemically addicted individual to enter into drug treatment
What is intervention
200
A nerve cell.
What is a Neuron
200
An environmental factor where teens are introduced to drugs.
What is school?
200
Immediate total discontinuation of use of a drug.
What is cold turkey?
300
The most widely used drug among college students.
What is Cannabis (Marijuana)?
300
The Drug Free Workplace Act was passed in ?
What is 1988
300
A disease that can be caused by intravenous injection.
What is HIV?
300
A recent movement that makes drug use more socially acceptable.
What is self-medication?
300
Chemical messengers that transfer electrical impulses.
What are neurotransmitters?
400
"Sudden sniffing death syndrome" can occur when using this type of drug.
What are Inhalants?
400
A Self-help group that helps drug users
What is Narcotics Anonymous
400
The Route of administration with the quickest absorption rate.
What is Inhalation?
400
Things that effect psychological development.
What are psychological factors?
400
An easily obtainable legal or illegal drug that represents a user's first experience with a mind-altering drug.
What is a gateway drug?
500
Another word for Narcotics.
What are Opiates?
500
Treatment and rehabilitation of drug-dependent people to limit physical, psychological, emotional, and social deterioration or prevent death
What is tertiary prevention
500
The smallest amount of drug that produces a response.
What is Threshold dose?
500
Family history of substance abuse.
What is genetic predisposition?
500
Craving a drug for emotional reasons.
What is psychological dependence?
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