Definitions
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Stimulants
Depressants
Psychedelic and Hallucinogenic
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When use of a mood-altering drug interferes with a person's life, resulting in negative effects on a person's physical, psychological, social, legal, emotional, occupational, or educational well-being.
What is drug abuse?
100
The effects that a drug has on a person shortly after being taken.
What are primary drug effects?
100
Describe the difference between delirium and psychosis
Delirium is a state of severe confusion. Psychosis involves a mental break from reality.
100
Name two primary groups of depressants.
Sedative-hypnotics and opioids.
100
What is another name of MDMA?
Ecstasy
200
A process in which the same amount of a drug begins to have less effect or when the amount of a drug needs to be increased to have the same effect as before.
What is tolerance?
200
Those actions that occur when a person takes a large amount of a drug or takes a drug over a long period of time. For example, someone who uses cocaine in large amounts or over a long period of time may have overstimulation, paranoia, agitation and violence, sleep and eating disruptions, and hallucinations.
What is secondary drug effects?
200
Name some physical effects of stimulants.
Rapid heartbeat, raised blood pressure, sweats and chills
200
When certain drugs are taken in combination, they create an effect that is greater than simply increasing one of the drugs. This is called a....
Potentiation effect
200
What are some of the basic effects of psychedelic drugs?
Psychedelic drugs can heighten feelings and senses, and distort senses and the ways people feel and think.
300
Name three major characteristics of addiction
Addiction is primary, progressive, and chronic
300
When two drugs have similar physical effects, and one is often substituted for the other when it, usually the primary drug of choice, is not available. The secondary drug has the same drug effect and can keep withdrawal symptoms from occurring.
What is cross-tolerance?
300
Name some psychological effects of stimulants.
A person can feel alert, confident, happy, high or depressed.
300
What is an additive effect?
Occurs when drugs have similar effects, such as beer and wine. If a person drinks one beer, plus a small glass of wine, the person has the same experience of drinking about two beers. One plus one equals two.
300
What drug can produce a psychedelic effect, a depressant effect, and some stimulant effect?
Marijuana
400
Name three behaviors involved in addiction
Compulsion, loss of control, and continued use despite negative consequences
400
Describe reverse tolerance.
Occurs when the user's body becomes extremely sensitive to a drug, causing an extreme reaction, such as a seizure or a psychotic episode.
400
What happens to the neurotransmitters in the brain when a person is using stimulants?
The level of neurotransmitters temporarily rises, but when the person stops taking the drug, the level falls below normal, making the person feel depressed and anxious.
400
Name two popular sedatives.
Valium and Xanax
400
Name the primary groups of psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs.
LSD psychedelics, amphetamine-related psychedelics, PCP psychedelics, marijuana and related drugs.
500
Describe the upper-downer cycle.
When individuals use both a primary drug and one of more secondary drugs, frequently taking depressants and stimulants together. Because the stimulant and the depressant counteract each other, individuals with large amounts of both drugs may not feel very intoxicated and can consume very large amounts of both drugs.
500
What are neurotransmitters and how are they involved in addiction?
Neurotransmitters are naturally occurring chemicals in the brain that carry messages between special cells called neurons. Alcohol and other drugs can also cause an imbalance in neurotransmitter levels.
500
Name the 6 common stimulant drugs.
Cocaine, amphetamines, amphetamine-related prescription pills (i.e. Ritalin), over the counter stimulant pills, caffeine, and nicotine
500
Describe some effects of opioids.
Opioids reduce or stop pain, reduce anxiety, cause a surge or pleasure, and cause constipation.
500
What is mescaline?
A naturally occurring chemical found in the peyote cactus. Used in amphetamine-related psychedelics.
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