Opioids
What is Opium
This act taxed Marijuana out of use
What is the 1937 Marijuana Tax act?
This is the first stage of the hallucinogenic effect which includes activity of the autonomic nervous system (fight or flight mode) and possible nausea and vomiting
What is the Somatic Stage?
These two things are important in regards to the drug effect.
What is ritual and setting of drug administration?
Heroin by itself does not get you high, but it's metabolites do. Because of this it is known as this.
What is a prodrug?
Alexander Wood perfected this in 1853 for a more efficient way to administer morphine
What is the hypodermic syringe?
The "Designer drug act" is also called this and outlaws any chemical structurally similar to any drug that is schedule 1 already
What is the Controlled Substances Analogue Act?
Injecting this can suppress withdrawal symptoms of heroin
What is water?
What is infectious disease (Especially water-borne parasites)?
An easy method for injecting heroin for beginning users
What is skin popping?
What are the two cannabinoid receptors and where are they found?
CB1 receptors - found everywhere in the brain except in the medulla making it impossible to overdose on Marijuana
CB2 receptors- located primarily on the surface of immune cells
This plant is where cathinones come from.
The conditioned response to a drug is not only the same as the drug effect it can also be this
What is opposite to the drug effect?
This is a huge side effect of opioids
The most seen opioids of abuse are agonists at this receptor
This compound in Marijuana is a partial or weak agonist on cannabinoid receptors
What is THC?
These two drugs non-competitive antagonists at the NMDA receptor
What is PCP and Ketamine?
This phenomenon is when seeing something associated with use of a drug can induce cravings
What is cue-induced craving?
This is the most potent drug we have talked about
What is LSD?
The ability of a drug to initiate a cellular response in each interaction
What is intrinsic efficacy?
This first discovered metabolite of THC is more potent than THC
What is 11-hydroxy-Δ-9-THC?
These two drugs are direct antagonists at muscarinic receptors and cause confusion + delirium, lethargy, drowsiness, stupor, and possible hallucinations but only at a toxic level
What is atropine and scopolamine?
You can induce cue-induced craving by doing this
What is extinction?
This drug was first developed as a surgical anesthetic but problems arose after surgery with patients suffering from hallucinations, delusion, and manic states
What is PCP?