Terms
BLANK: is a term used to describe severe problems related to the compulsive and habitual use of mood-altering substances
What is Addiction?
Name one stimulant drug
What is Cocaine, Methamphetamine, Amphetamine, Coffee, or Nicotine?
What are the types of depressants?
What are sedative-hypnotics and opiates?
Name one of the primary groups of psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs
LSD psychedelic, Amphetamine-related psychedelics, PCP psychedelics, synthetic cannabinoids, and marijuana and related drugs
This is the leading cause of Preventable death in the United States.
What is Cigarette smoking?
BLANK: are typically the opposite of the effect produced by the drug.
What are Withdrawal Symptoms?
Name one effect that stimulants have on the body
What is increased heart rate, increased energy, anxiety, increased blood pressure, decreased appetite, paranoia, increased alertness?
True or False: a hypnotic drug is a sleeping pill.
True
Name one factor that influences the effects of psychedelic drugs
What is amount taken, surroundings, previous experiences, attitude, emotional state, or expectations?
True or False: PCP is extremely unpredictable because the dose does not determine the severity of the reaction
True
BLANK: the effects of that a drug has on a person shortly after the drug is taken
What are primary drug effects?
Name the psychological states caused by stimulants.
What is intoxication, delirium, psychosis, and withdrawal?
What effect of depressants can lead to death?
Slowing of the brain's breathing center
True or false
LSD symptoms will always last until the drug starts to leave the body.
True or false: Marijuana and related drugs have psychedelic, depressant, and stimulant effects
True
BLANK: this occurs when the user's body becomes extremely sensitive to a drug
What is Reverse Tolerance?
What determines the effect of a drug?
Drug strength, amount, how long it lasts in the body, and how it is taken.
BLANK: a drug that makes a person calmer, reduces anxiety, and lowers stimulation from the senses
Sedatives
Amphetamine-related psychedelics have properties of what drug types?
Name one serious medical problem the CDC has reported is associated with synthetic cannabinoids.
Seizures, pneumonia, or heart attacks
BLANK: a term to describe when the cells in the body become accustomed to the drug and begin to adapt to the presence of the drug
What is Physical Dependence?
What happens to neurotransmitters after a long period of stimulant use?
The neurotransmitters may be used up temporarily.
Name the severe withdrawal symptoms of a sedative-hypnotic
What is delirium, psychosis, seizures, and possibly death?
Why are PCP and ketamine called dissociative anesthetics?
They stop pain by disconnecting the mind from the body.
Why do PCP and marijuana remain in the body longer than most drugs?
They are stored in fat cells.