Benzodiazepines
Barbiturates & Miscellaneous
Opiates
Alcohol
Surprise
100
This class of drugs can be used to help reduce alcohol withdrawal symptoms
What are benzodiazepines?
100
Name 3 depressants of the central nervous system that act on the GABA a receptor.
What are barbiturates, benzodiazepines, and alcohol?
100
The active ingredient in opium which was isolated is_
What is morphine?
100
JK is a college student and drinks at parties and his father is a recovering alcoholic. What are the chances JK who is in a Fraternity will become an alcoholic?
What is 30%
100
Mixing drugs like heroin and alcohol is dangerous because
What is the liver can only metabolize 1 drug at a time so the second one gets into the blood stream quickly..
200
Some medical uses for benzodiazepines (name the primary 3)
What are anti-convulsants, anti-anxiety, and sedation?
200
Barbiturates are used occasionally for these two medical uses today (one use for in the hospital and one for outside the hospital)
What are surgery sedation/anesthesia and the treatment of epilepsy?
200
An opiate antagonist that can be given to someone overdosing on heroin or morphine to terminate the opiate's effects
What is Naloxone or Narcan?
200
Alcohol is broken down in the liver via
Acetaldhyde Dehydrogenase
200
Laughing gas is acutally__
What is nitrous oxide
300
Some medical conditions benzodiazepines may cause (one in babies of mothers who took them, and one in the elderly)
What are floppy infant syndrome and pseudo-dementia?
300
Buspirone (Buspar) is a _____ agonist used to treat _______
What are serotonin and anxiety and depression?
300
The painkiller that doctors can coat lollipops with to give to a child before surgery
What is Fentanyl?
300
After drinking 6 margaritas last night AJ's may have a _ (liver issue)
What is a fatty
300
The number one prescription for anxiety is___
What is Xanax
400
The half-life range for benzodiazepines
What is 2-100 hours?
400
400: Ambien is a ______ agonist and is used as a _______
What are GABA and sleep aid?
400

Synthetic opiates include (name at least 3)

What are methadone, LAAM, fentanyl,  oxycontin

400
During detox an alcoholic may experience
What are Anxiety, seizures (rebound) Delirium tremors (hallucinations), Insomnia (alcohol suppresses REM), high blood pressure
400
JJ just shot up some heroin. What will this do to his nervous system
What is decrease blood pressure, respiratory system, constrict pupils, rush euphoria..
500
Benzodiazepines work on the _____ receptor and _____ rushes into the axon, making it hyperpolarize
What are GABA and Cl-?
500

500: Some of the things GHB has been used for - list at least 3 (2 are in your notes, find another in your book)

What are anesthesia (first use), athletic enhancement/muscle growth and sleep induction (second discovered use), treatment of narcolepsy

500
Type of opiate receptor abundant in the spinal cord
What is Kappa?
500
The neurotransmitters that are affected by Alcohol
What are dopamine, acetylcholine, and GABA, serotonin
500

Drug A has an LD50 of 500mg but its ED50 is 10 mg. Drug B has a LD50 of 300 mg but the ED50 is 10mg which drug is more dangerous A or B.

What is , drug A its therapeutic index is 50 compared to B 30. Drug B is more dangerous! 

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