A group of techniques that involve focusing attention on an object, a word, one's breathing or body movement in order to block out all distractions and achieve an altered state of consciousness.
What is meditation?
100
The physical and psychological symptoms (usually those opposite of the drug) that occur when a regularly used drug is discontinued and that terminate when the drug is taken again.
What are withdrawal symptoms?
100
The feelings of depression, exhaustion, irritability and anxiety that occur following an amphetamine, a cocaine or a crack high.
What is a crash?
100
A designer drug that is a hallucinogen-amphetamine and can produce permanent damage of the serotonin-releasing neurons.
What is ecstasy (MMDA)?
100
A class of CNS depressants used as sedatives, sleeping pills and anesthetics; addictive, and an overdose can cause coma or death.
What are barbiturates?
200
A drug that alters normal mental functioning - mood, perception or thought; if used medically, called a controlled substance.
What is a psychoactive drug?
200
A craving or irresistible urge for a drug's pleasurable effects.
What is psychological drug dependance?
200
The most potent, inexpensive and addictive form of cocaine; the form that is smoked.
What is crack?
200
A hallucinogen with effects ranging from relaxation and giddiness to perceptional distortions and hallucinations.
What is marijuana?
200
A CNS depressant that calms the user, lowers anxiety and decreases muscular tension.
What are minor tranquilizers?
300
A trance-like state of concentrated, focused attention, heightened suggestibility and diminished response to external stimuli.
What is hypnosis?
300
A category of drugs that speed up drugs that speed up activity in the CNS, suppress appetite and cause a person to feel more awake, alert and energetic; its slang term is "uppers".
What are stimulants?
300
A category of drugs, sometimes called psychedelics, that alter perception and mood and can cause hallucinations.
What are hallucinogens?
300
The principle psychoactive ingredient in marijuana and hashish.
What is THC?
300
Derived from the opium poppy, a class of depressant drugs that have pain-relieving and calming effects; opium, morphine and heroin.
What are narcotics?
400
A compulsive pattern of drug use in which the user develops a drug tolerance coupled with unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued.
What is physical drug dependence?
400
A class of CNS stimulants that increase arousal, relieve fatigue and suppress the appetite.
What are amphetamines?
400
A powerful hallucinogen with unpredictable effects ranging from perceptual changes and vivid hallucinations to states of panic and terror.
What is LSD?
400
Drugs that decrease activity in the CNS, slow down bodily functions and reduce sensitivity to outside stimulation; its slang term is "downers".
What are depressants?
400
A highly addictive, partly synthetic narcotic derived from morphine; withdrawal makes the user physically sick.
What is heroin?
500
A condition in which the user becomes progressively less affected by the drug so larger and larger doses are needed to maintain the same effect.
What is drug tolerance?
500
A stimulant that produces a feeling of euphoria; withdrawal includes depression, anxiety, agitation and a powerful craving for more of the drug.
What is cocaine?
500
The brief recurrence of effects a person has experienced while taking LSD or other hallucinogens, occurring suddenly and without warning at a later time.
What is a flashback?
500
A CNS depressant that causes slurred speech, poor coordination, staggering etc.
What is alcohol?
500
1. Tobacco, caffeine, amphetamines and cocaine
2. Marijuana and LSD
3. Alcohol, tranquilizers and barbiturates
4. Opium, morphine and heroin
What are:
1. stimulants
2. hallucinogens
3. depressants
4. narcotics