Endorphins
Chocolate, laughter, and exercise are examples of this.
What are ways to naturally produce endorphins?
This type of opioid comes from a plant.
What is natural?
Feeling of pleasure caused by rush of endorphins.
What is euphoria?
Occurs when the body becomes less responsive to a drug over time.
The "feel good" chemical produced in the brain that helps us tolerate pain.
What is endorphins?
Endorphins interrupt this signal from reaching the brain.
What is pain?
This type of opioid is produced partly from a plant and partly in a lab.
What is semi synthetic?
Occurs in the circulatory system.
What is slowed heart function?
Occurs when the brain adapts to the effect of a drug and needs it to function.
What is physical dependency?
Drugs that work on the nervous system to reduce pain signals reaching the brain.
What are opioids?
The process of sending messages to the brain through neurons.
What is neurotransmission?
This type of opioid is completely made in a lab.
What is fully synthetic?
Occurs in the digestive system.
What is nausea/vomiting/constipation?
A group of physical and psychological symptoms that result from stopping an addicting drug.
What is withdrawal?
When the body needs the opioid to function.
What is physical dependency?
Messages are released and received here.
What is the synaptic gap?
The type of flower that opium comes from.
Occurs in the respiratory system.
What is slowed breathing?
Sores that occur often around needle injection sites and can occur on internal organs.
What are abscesses?
When the body stops opioid use.
What is withdrawal?
The part of the neuron that the signal travels down.
What is the axon?
This type of opioid is illegal to use.
What is heroin?
Occurs in the skeletal system.
What is bone thinning?
Can cause a decrease in the function of this organ from filtering too many toxins.
What is the liver?
3 things that opioid abuse can cause.
What are abscesses/physical dependence/decreased liver function/slowed breathing/slowed heart rate