Stimulants
These are two legal stimulants that increase blood pressure.
What is Caffeine and tobacco?
These drugs can relieve pain and commonly produce euphoria.
What are opiates?
These two drugs can interfere with the formation of new long-term memories.
What is Alcohol and marijuana?
The brains communication specialists, transmitting information to, from and within the CNS.
What is a Neuron? (nerve)
The part of the neuron that keeps it alive and determines whether or not it will fire.
What is the cell body?
These are two ways to practice harm reduction when using ecstasy(MDMA).
Test your pills for purity
Drink water - not alcohol
Stay cool - wear cool clothes
The most common risk is dehydration!
a long-acting opioid drug used to replace the shorter-acting opioids that someone may be addicted to, such as heroin
What is methadone?
These are the two most consistent physiological effects of smoking marijuana.
What is reddening of the eyes and increased heart rate?
This is best known as a reward neurotransmitter.
What is dopamine?
A neurons extended fibre that conducts impulses away from the cell body and transmits them to other neurons. Hint. They divide at the end into terminals
What is the axon?
A stimulant drug that ups your levels of altertness, attention, and energy. The drug sends high levels of dopamine into the parts of your brain that control pleasure. This buildup causes intense feelings of energy and alertness.
What is cocaine?
Most drugs can be classified under these 4 groups.
What are depressants, stimulants, opiates or psychedelics?
This happens to alcohol when it enters the body.
It is absorbed by the small intestine, then distributed throughout the body fluids (BAC). It remains in the bloodstream until it is metabolized (90% by the liver)
This nervous system controls the "fight-or-flight" response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
*some symptoms are dilated pupils and increased HR
These look like branches of a tree, they receive information from other neurons and transmit it toward the cell body.
What is dendrites?
Short-term use of stimulant drugs often make the user feel this desired effect.
Less tired, confidence, excitement, maintain wakefulness, enhance focus, higher energy level, decrease appetite, and temporarily elevate mood
Pentazocine, usually sold under this brand name, is a painkiller used to treat moderate to severe pain.
What is Talwin?
These are two types of depressant drugs.
What are sedatives, sleeping pills, inhalants, barbiturates, tranquilizers (valium), and alcohol?
A complex system of nerves, cells and substances that carry messages from one part of the body to another.
What are neurotransmitters?
The site where transmission of a nerve impulse from one nerve cell to another occurs.
What is the synapse?
Stimulants increase the amount of norepinephrine in the brain. What is norepinephrine?
the neurotransmitter that controls the fight or flight response and is part of the emergency response system. It controls the sympathetic nervous system - increased HR & BP - all necessary to the emergency response system, but also creates the symptoms of chronic stress if activated on a regular basis.
This drug works quickly at producing an intense euphoric sensation. A synthetic stimulant drug that targets your CNS. Some common signs of usage are: -Extremely happy mood
-Feeling of being invincible
-Days of insomnia or wakefulness
-Hallucinations
-Constant itching or scabs
-Rotten, decaying teeth
What is crystal meth?
Cocaethylene is the deadly byproduct formed when these two substances are used together.
What are Cocaine and alcohol?
This system constricts pupils, slows HR and activates digestion. It keeps things running smoothly in the body and helps conserve & store energy.
What is the parasympathetic system?
An insulating layer, or sheath that forms around nerves, including those in the brain or spinal cord. Made up of protein and fatty substances.
What is myelin?
These are 3 dangers associated with meth labs. (think about children living with a methlab too)
What is harmful fumes, highly explosive chemical substances, extremely flammable, dangerous, harmful secondhand smoke, ticking time bombs, used needles, neglect?
This is what its called when a substance is chemically converted inside the body.
What is metabolism?
These are 3 factors that can influence the effect drugs can have on an individual.
What is... environment, quality/quantity, administration, person - weight, health, age, tolerance, history, experience, expectations, etc.
The automatic nervous system is divided into these two parts.
What is the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system?
A cell that conducts electrochemical signals - the basic unit of the nervous system.
What is a neuron? (nerve cell)
These are 4 affects caffeine can have on the body.
What is high BP, increased HR, increased adrenaline, increased energy/wakefulness, Can cause anxiety and insomnia, nervousness and tremulousness, dehydration, low birth weight, reduces blood flow to the eyes, constricts blood vessels (high BP)
Two types of opioid drugs.
Morphine, codeine, heroin and oxycodone
These are 4 medical risks associated with drinking alcohol.
Slowed HR & reflexes
loss of coordination
memory loss (hippocampus)
crossed the blood/placenta barrier
hypertension
inflamed pancreas
cancer risk and liver disease
alcohol poisoning
The system that consists of nerves that branch out throughout the body and relay messages to the brain.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
When a neuron is stimulated, the sodium ions rush in, and increase the positive charge inside the cell. When the charge reaches a critical level, it triggers a response called...
What is the action potential?