Brain Structures
Brain Communication
Drugs Impact on the Brain
Drugs & the Body
Drug Classifications
100
The brain is part of this of this system.
What is the Central Nervous System?
100
Your brain contains about 100 billion of these.
What are neurons?
100
The reward circuit in our brains are wired to make sure we repeat healthy activities. When it's activated our brain makes a note to remember the activity. The same area is activated when we use mood altering substances which can lead to _____.
What is addiction?
100

Inhalation is an example of this.

What is a mode of administration?

100

This class of drug slows down the operations of the brain and the body.

What are CNS Depressants?

200

This links the brain with the spinal cord, which runs down the back and moves muscles and limbs as well as lets the brain know what's happening to the body.

What is the brain stem?

200
This "chemical messenger" makes it possible for messages to travel through the body.
What are neurotransmitters?
200
Dopamine receptors decrease to try to regulate the flood of dopamine in your system from drug use, causing you to become less sensitive to dopamine.
What is tolerance?
200

Sweating, shaking, anxiety, and nausea are examples of this.

What are withdrawal symptoms?

200

This class of drug relieves pain, induces euphoria, and creates mood changes in the user.

What are Opiates/Narcotics?

300
This links together a bunch of brain structures that control our emotional responses, such as feeling pleasure when we eat chocolate. The good feelings motivate us to repeat the behavior.
What is the limbic system?
300
As a neurotransmitter approaches a nearby neuron, it attaches to this, acting similarly to a key and a lock.
What is a receptor?
300

Drugs imitate the brains natural chemical messengers and overstimulate this area.

What is the "reward circuit."

300
Five areas that can be affected by alcohol use on a single occasion or over time.
What are brain, liver, pancreas, heart, and immune system?
300

This drug does not neatly fit into any one classification and therefore gets its own because it exhibits some depressant affects, some pain relief effects, as well as some hallucinogenic affects as well.

What are Cannabinoids?

400
The cerebral cortex or gray matter is broken up into four lobes. This lobe is our thinking center, it powers our ability to think, plan, solve, problems, and make decisions.
What is the frontal cortex?
400
Once a neurotransmitters do their job they are pulled back into their original neuron by transporters. This recycling process shuts off the signal between neurons. This is one reason this process is important.
Various answers are acceptable.
400
Alcohol can produce detectable impairments in memory, the most severe of these are called ______, when you have no recollection of events.
What are blackouts?
400

A condition in which a person who takes a drug over time experiences unpleasant physical symptoms if the drug is suddenly stopped or taken in smaller doses.

What is (physical) dependency?

400

This is the way we most typically classify drugs in addiction medicine.

What is classifying by how the drug impacts the mind and body? 

500

This part of the brainstem handles automatic functions like breathing, consciousness, and body temperature.

What is the medulla?

500

These are three neurotransmitters.

What are Dopamine, Seratonin, GABA, Adrenaline...

500

The effects of depressants on the medulla can be _______.

What is life threatening?

500
Symptoms/signs of overdose.
Answers chills, chest pain, upset stomach, nausea...
500

This is how many drug classifications there are.

What is a trick question? There's anywhere from 4-7 classifications.

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