Benzodiazepines
Barbiturates & Miscellaneous
Opiates
Marijuana
100
This class of drugs can be used to help reduce alcohol withdrawal symptoms
What are benzodiazepines?
100
These drugs from this unit create a synergistic effect (taken together they magnify each other's effects)
What are barbiturates, benzodiazepines, opiates, and alcohol?
100
The active ingredient in opium
What is morphine?
100
The average level of THC in marijuana today (percentage)
What is 11%?
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?
200
The neurotransmitter that resembles THC
What is Anandamide?
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 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
The half-life of marijuana in plasma
What is 24-36 hours?
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, MPPP, and MPTP?
400
Anandamide is found in these brain regions
What are the nucelus accumbens and the basal ganglia?
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), date rape, treatment of narcolepsy
500
Type of opiate receptor abundant in the spinal chord
What is Kappa?
500
The neurotransmitters that are affected by marijuana
What are dopamine, acetylcholine, and norepinepherine?
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